Acknowledgments
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition – Clare Jackson
Preface
Preface to the second edition
Part I Historiography
Chapter 1 Theories of revolution
Chapter 2 The social origins of the English Revolution
Part II Interpretation
Chapter 3 The causes of the English Revolution
- Presuppositions
- The preconditions 1529-1629
- The precipitants, 1629-39
- The triggers, 1640-2
- Conclusion
Chapter 4 Second thoughts in 1985
Index
Biography
Lawrence Stone (1919-1999) was one of the leading social and political historians of the post-1945 period. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1950, and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1963. From 1963 to1990 he was Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, also at Princeton, from 1969.
‘Much the best all-round analysis of the causes of the English Revolution that we have.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘He was that rare person among the academic species, both a historians' historian and a popular one.' Michael Thompson, The Guardian
‘Lawrence Stone belonged to a remarkable generation of British historians who dominated and defined their subject for nearly half a century, and which included Christopher Hill, G.R. Elton, Asa Briggs, J.H. Plumb, Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Thompson. They all wrote widely and well, and reached a large audience in universities and far beyond. But in many ways, Stone was the most creative - and the most controversial - of them all.’ David Cannadine, The Independent
