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Title: The Civil Wars after 1660
Condition: New
Subtitle: Public Remembering in Late Stuart England
ISBN-10: 184383815X
EAN: 9781843838159
ISBN: 9781843838159
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 20/06/2013
Description: Drawing upon the interdisciplinary field of social memory studies, this book opens up new vistas on the historical and political culture of early modern England.This book examines the conflicting ways in which the civil wars and Interregnum were remembered, constructed and represented in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It argues that during the late Stuart period, public remembering of the English civil wars and Interregnum was not concerned with re-fighting the old struggle but rather with commending and justifying, or contesting and attacking, the Restoration settlements. After the return of King Charles II the political nation had to address the question of remembering and forgetting the recent conflict. The answer was to construct a polity grounded on remembering and scapegoating puritan politics and piety. The proscription of the puritan impulse enacted by the Restoration settlements was supported by a public memory of the 1640s and 1650s which was used to show that Dissenters could not, and should not, be trusted with power. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary field of social memory studies, this book offers a new perspective on the historical and political cultures of early modern England, and will be of significant interest to social, cultural and political historians aswell as scholars working in memory studies. Matthew Neufeld is Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Author: Matthew Neufeld
Genre: History
Book Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Item Weight: 1g
Release Year: 2013

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