Lexington Books
Pages: 198
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-0362-3 • Hardback • April 2002 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
978-0-7391-2181-8 • Paperback • April 2007 • $56.99 • (£44.00)
Mark Stephen Jendrysik is assistant professor of politics in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota.
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Disordering of Order
Chapter 2 Gerrard Winstanley: The Oppression of Covetousness
Chapter 3 John Milton: Tyranny and Revolution
Chapter 4 Oliver Cromwell: Factions, Forcers of Conscience and Civil War
Chapter 5 Robert Filmer: The Anarchy of Natural Liberty
Chapter 6 Thomas Hobbes: Divided Sovereignty and Civil War
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Ordering of Disorder
Explaining the English Revolution is both an accessible and engaging introduction to the political thought of the period and a lively challenge to the scholarship on Winstanley, Milton, Cromwell, Filmer, and Hobbes. Professor Jendrysik skillfully explicates the varieties of disorder perceived and propagated from 1649-1653. His careful analysis of contested concepts such as kingship, faction, freedom, and hierarchy insightfully adds to our understanding of the individual authors and to comparative studies in the field.
— Amy McCready, Bucknell University