Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and art titles; Introduction; 1. The Dutch, the invasion of England, and the alliance of 1689 K. H. D. Haley; 2. France caught between two balances: the dilemma of 1688 John C. Rule; 3. The Fourth English Civil War: dissolution, desertion, and alternative histories in the Glorious Revolution J. G. A. Pocock; 4. The politics of legitimacy: women and the warming-pan scandal Rachel J. Weil; 5. Pretense and pragmatism: the response to uncertainty in the succession crisis of 1689 Howard Nenner; 6. William III as Hercules: the political implications of court culture Stephen B. Baxter; 7. The coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689 Lois G. Schwoerer; 8. William - and Mary? W. A. Speck; 9. John Locke and religious toleration Gordon J. Schochet; 10. Representing the Revolution: politics and high culture in 1689 Steven N. Zwicker; 11. Politics and popular culture: the theatrical response to the revolution Lois Potter; 12. Revolution redivivus: 1688–1689 and the radical tradition in seventeenth-century London politics Gary S. De Kray; 13. The cabinet and the management of death at Tyburn after the Revolution of 1688–1689 J. M. Beattie; 14. The Glorious Revolution and Ireland Karl S. Bottigheimer; 15. The poverty of political theory in the Scottish Revolution of 1688–1690 Bruce P. Lenman; 16. The Glorious Revolution and the British Empire 1688–1783 Jack P. Greene; Selected readings; Index.

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Interdisciplinary interpretations of the Revolution and of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian world.