In this fascinating collection, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky come together to reconsider the meanings of Englands mid-seventeenth-century revolution. Their chapters range widely: from shipboard to urban conflicts; from court sermons to local finances; from debates over hairstyles to debates over the meanings of regicide; from courtrooms to pamphlet wars; and from religious rights to human rights. Taken together, they indicate how we might improve our understanding of a turbulent epoch in political history by approaching it more modestly and quietly than historians of recent decades have often done.Revolutionising politics will appeal to professional historians and their students interested in the social, cultural, religious and legal history of seventeenth-century English politics. Specific chapters will interest scholars in book history, the cultural history of politics and the history of political, civil and human rights.

Paul D. Halliday is the Julian Bishko Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Eleanor Hubbard is Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Scott Sowerby is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University

Foreword: Why was Kish a historian? John Morrill Introduction: Mark Kishlanskys Revolution Eleanor Hubbard, Scott Sowerby and Paul D. HallidayPart I: Conceiving politics 1 Honour and anger: shipboard politics in 1627 Eleanor Hubbard 2Hannibal ad Portas: necessity, public law and the common law emergency in theCase of Ship Money David Chan Smith 3 Predestination, presumption and popularity: Robert Skinner explains the ideological underpinnings of the Personal Rule Peter Lake 4 Gender, inversion and the causes of the English Civil War Susan D. Amussen 5Eikon Basilikein context: the intellectual history of a martyrdom Jeffrey Collins 6 Englands human rights revolution, 164652 Paul D. HallidayPart II: Practicing politics 7 Consensus, division and voting in early Stuart towns­ Catherine Patterson 8 For the better vindication of his Majestie in forreigne partes: orchestrating English polemics in Paris and The Hague, 16458 Thomas Cogswell 9 The Scots, the Parliament and the people:The Rise of the New Model Army revisited Ann Hughes 10 The great purse of the City: the consequences of Londons Civil War finances for livery company charities Joseph P. Ward 11 Trading toleration for troops: Charles I and Catholics in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Scott Sowerby Index