The History of England from the Accession of James IICosimo, Inc., 1.1.2013 - 570 sivua Perhaps the most famous example of the "Whig interpretation of history"-the idea that the human story has been inevitably destined for enlightenment, progress, and scientific truth-this five-volume work instantly revolutionized the British understanding of history when its first volume was published in 1848. Though not without its detractors-Karl Marx called author BARON THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859), an English politician and historian, "a systematic falsifier of history"-it nevertheless became a standard text, and one that is today required reading for anyone who wishes to explore changing values and ideals in historical scholarship. Volume I introduces the reader to Britain before James II, from life under the Romans and Saxons and the conversion to Christianity to the Monmouth Rebellion of Scotland in 1685 and James II's taking of the throne. |
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The Question of the Monopolies | 49 |
The fashionable Part of the Capital | 282 |
Shutting of the Exchequer | 284 |
Difficulty of Travelling | 292 |
Inns 800 | 296 |
Etage Coaches | 298 |
The PostOffice | 302 |
Female Education | 308 |
State of Science in England | 317 |
The Petition of Right violated | 61 |
His Coronation | 75 |
Becond Expulsion of the Long Parliament | 109 |
Abolition of the Tenures by Knight Service | 118 |
Unpopularity of the Puritans | 125 |
Characters of the Duke of York and Earl of Clarendon | 134 |
Change in the Morals of the Community | 140 |
War with the Dutch | 149 |
The Triple Alliance | 158 |
The Cabal | 165 |
War with the United Provinces and their extreme Danger | 168 |
The Cabal dissolved | 174 |
Fall of Danby the Popish Plot | 181 |
Character of Halifax | 189 |
Lawrence Hyde | 197 |
Parliament held at Oxford and dissolved Tory Reaction | 203 |
Seizure of Charters | 210 |
Great Change in the State of England since 1685 | 219 |
Military System | 225 |
The Navy | 232 |
The Ordnance | 238 |
Mineral Wealth of the Country | 246 |
The Clergy | 254 |
The Yeomanry | 260 |
Lord Keeper Guildford 213 | 262 |
Leeds | 266 |
The City | 273 |
State of the Common People Agricultural Wages | 324 |
Number of Paupers | 332 |
Suspicions of Poison | 345 |
New Arrangements | 351 |
The Revenue collected without an Act of Parliament | 357 |
Policy of Lewis 215 | 365 |
Feelings of the Continental Governments towards England 264 | 368 |
Proceedings against Oates | 379 |
CHAPTER V | 412 |
Ferguson | 418 |
Sir Patrick Hume | 425 |
Preparations made by the Government for the Defence | 430 |
Temper of the Scotch Nation | 436 |
His Execution | 446 |
His Declaration | 452 |
Reception of Monmouth at Taunton | 460 |
Preparations of the Government to oppose him | 466 |
Despondency of Monmouth | 472 |
Battle of Sedgemoor | 481 |
His Letter to the King | 488 |
Cruelties of the Soldiers in the West Kirke | 497 |
Christopher Battiscombe the Hewlings | 510 |
Trial and Execution of Bateman | 524 |
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