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English Revolution

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Noun1.English RevolutionEnglish Revolution - the revolution against James II; there was little armed resistance to William and Mary in England although battles were fought in Scotland and Ireland (1688-1689)


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1) But as Pestana argues in her latest book, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, the empire was created in the seventeenth century, when the English Revolution set in motion political, economic, and social changes that redefined the relationship between England and its colonies across the Atlantic world.
He has very interesting things to say about the reworkings of the representation of Overbury, but he does not have the space to provide the depth of analysis of the earlier parts of the book; his attempt to show an indirect link between Jacobean court scandal and the English Revolution is not so fully worked out, and he slightly glosses over the problem that between Jacobean moral court scandal and the 1640s lay the undoubtedly moral Caroline court.
The leaders of the American Revolution were heartened by the fact that there had been an English revolution that had succeeded.
 
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