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The Stuart monarchy was restored in 1660. What does this tell us about the nature of the mid-century upheaval? Can one speak of a ‘revolution’ having taken place at all in view of the return of monarchy? Alternatively, had the nature of the monarchy after 1660 now changed so significantly for one to be able to use the word ‘revolution’ even in a monarchic context? Were its consequences made clear and permanent in the reigns of the later Stuart kings, Charles II (1660–85) and his brother James II (1685–8)?
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J. C. D. Clark, Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Cambridge, 1986), p. 130.
Notably, A. McInnes, ‘When was the English Revolution?’, History, 67 (1982), pp. 377–92.
J. Miller, Bourbon and Stuart (New York, 1987), p. 228. However, the differences between English and French political realities are clarified in his ‘The Potential for Absolutism in Later Stuart England’, History, 69 (1984), pp. 187–207.
For the old debate see L. Stone, Social Change and Revolution in England, 1540–1640 (London, 1965).
L. Stone, ‘The Bourgeois Revolution Revisited’, Past and Present, 109 (1985), pp. 44–54; R. Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London’s Overseas Traders, 1550–1653 (Cambridge, 1993).
C. Hill; The Place of the Seventeenth-century Revolution in English History’, in S. N. Mukherjee and J. O. Ward (eds), Revolution as History (Sydney, 1989), pp. 24–30; idem, ‘A Bourgeois Revolution?’, in J. Pocock (ed.), Three British Revolutions (Princeton, 1980), pp. 109–39.
J. P. Kenyon, Stuart England (Harmondsworth, 2nd edn, 1985), p. 195.
C. Hill, The Century of Revolution (Edinburgh, 1961), pp. 224–5; L. Stone, The Results of the English Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century’, in Pocock, Three British Revolutions, pp. 50–2.
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Edwards, P. (2001). Epilogue: the Restoration and beyond. In: The Making of the Modern English State, 1460–1660. British Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-99383-5_13
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