1688 : the first modern revolution / / Steve Pincus

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911108504603321
• Autore: Pincus Steven C. A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-35260-1; 9786612352607; 0-300-15605-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (704 p.)
• Collana: The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
• Classificazione: HIS015000
• Disciplina: 941.06/7
• Soggetti: Nonfiction; History; Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714; Great Britain History Revolution of 1688; Great Britain History Revolution of 1688 Historiography; Great Britain History Revolution of 1688 Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Unmaking of a Revolution -- CHAPTER TWO. Rethinking Revolutions -- CHAPTER THREE. Going Dutch: English Society in 1685 -- CHAPTER FOUR. English Politics at the Accession of James II -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Ideology of Catholic Modernity -- CHAPTER SIX. The Practice of Catholic Modernity -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Resistance to Catholic Modernization -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Popular Revolution -- CHAPTER NINE. Violent Revolution -- CHAPTER TEN. Divisive Revolution -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Revolution in Foreign Policy -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Revolution in Political Economy -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Revolution in the Church -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Assassination, Association, and the Consolidation of Revolution -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Conclusion The First Modern Revolution -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscripts Consulted -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution-bloodless, ; consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689.James II developed a modernization program that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution-not the French Revolution-the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.

Construction grammar in a cross-language perspective / / edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Ostman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911135468703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2004
• ISBN: 9786612255229; 9781282255227; 1282255223; 9789027294968; 9027294968; 9789027218223; 9027218226; 9781423764847; 1423764846
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 208 p
• Collana: Constructional approaches to language, , 1573-594X ; ; v. 2
• Classificazione: ET 350
• Altri autori (Persone): FriedMirjam; ÖstmanJan-Ola
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Construction grammar; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar -- 1. Preamble -- 2. A brief history of Construction Grammar -- 3. Cross-language and universal potential of Construction Grammar -- Notes -- References -- 2. Construction Grammar -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Main features of Construction Grammar -- 2.1. General properties -- 2.2. The Case Grammar connection -- 3. Arguments for Construction Grammar -- 4. The notion grammatical construction -- 5. Defining Construction Grammar -- 6. Working in Construction Grammar -- 6.1. Notational and analytical conventions -- 6.2. Feature structures -- 6.3. Unification in practice -- 6.4. Valence -- 6.5. Linking -- 6.6. ; Instantiation patterns -- 6.7. Ordering constructions -- 6.8. Unification and Inheritance -- 6.9. External vs. internal properties -- 7. Construction Grammar: Outlook -- Notes -- References -- 3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The dative-experiencer pattern -- 3. The accusative-experiencer pattern -- 4. The accusative construction as a grammatical idiom -- 5. Case marking and construction grammar -- 5.1. Constructional representation of DC and AC -- 5.2. Case marking -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Construction types and constructional schemes -- 2.1. Construction types -- 2.2. Constructional schemes -- 3. Data -- 4. Different construction types with a shared modal function -- 4.1. The Bi-Clausal Conditional construction -- 4.2. The Integrated Evaluative Conditional construction -- 4.3. From conditional constructions to the deontic modal function of 'obligation' -- 5. The Reduced Conditional construction.; 6. The source of the Reduced Conditional construction -- 6.1. Possible source 1: Fixed idiomatic expressions -- 6.2. Possible source 2: The Integrated Evaluative construction -- 6.3. Possible source 3: The Full Bi-Clausal Conditional construction -- 6.4. General source: The constructional scheme -- 7. The larger view of the proposed framework -- 7.1. Other linkers in the constructional scheme of 'obligation' -- 7.2. Other constructional schemes -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Preferred-Clause construction and the R-top template -- 3. The Right-Detached comme-N construction -- 3.1. The RDCN construction and the R-TOP template -- 3.2. Syntax and semantics of the RDCN construction -- 3.3. Information structure of the RDCN construction -- 3.4. Summary -- 4. Theoretical implications -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Index of constructions -- The series Constructional Approaches to Language.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & Östman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.