To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. "Revolution" brilliantly captures the sense that this was a great turning point in Bri...(展开全部)

埃里克·纳尔逊（Eric Nelson）哈佛大学政府学院罗伯特·M.贝伦讲席教授。研究领域集中于欧美现代早期政治思想史及其在当代政治理论中的应用，代表作有《希伯来共和国：欧洲政治思想的转变及其犹太根源》（The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, 2010）；《共和思想中的希腊传统》（The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, 2004）。

Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powe...(展开全部)

Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powe...(展开全部)

哈里•狄金森，爱丁堡大学荣休教授、荣誉院士，自1980-2006年一直担任理查德•洛奇英国史讲席教授；曾经担任爱丁堡大学历史学系主任，爱丁堡大学研究生委员会主席。他是英国高等教育学会会员，两次担任英国皇家历史学会副主席（Vice-President）以及英国历史学会常务副主席，英国艺术和人文研究委员会历史研究组主席。研究领域是18世纪英国政治史，主要关注议会政治、大众政治和政治思想史，也研究这一时期的军事和海军史。其代表作有：《英国激进主义与法国大革命1789-1815》（British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815）、《沃尔波尔与辉格党的优势》（Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, London, 1973)）、《财产与自由》（Liberty and Prop...(展开全部)

Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬--1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear in its foes and facilitat...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)