HIS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: English Civil War, Whig History, Liberal Democracy

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23 Jan 2017
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History: a field of study devoted to the analysis, reconstruction, and interpretation of past societies, events, people, and institutions: historiography: a critical field/subfield within history. How historians have written about and interpreted the past. Without historiography, there would be no history: different types of historiography and interpretations. Progressive school, historicist/historicism (interpreting the past within the context of the past), revisionist, post-revisionist, feminist, modernist. English civil wars and revolutions of the 1600s. Beginning in the nineteenth century, historians began to interpret the english civil war and revolutions. Constitutional: a struggle over the fundamental principles of government. Marxist historians" interpretation of the re(cid:448)olution, also a progressive interpretation. Interpret as a conflict between rising middle/capital class against an old feudal aristocracy. Revisionist interpretation: deemphasize social and economic factors as well as religion (protestantism and. Only when charles i became king did disunity emerge. Post-revisionist interpretation: similar to the whig interpretation to some degree, not in every aspect.

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