The making of the modern state

he Glorious Revolution of 1688 has long been consigned to the revolutionary B-list, dismissed as a bloodless back-room deal. A new history proves the event worthy of its name, writes

The Revolution of 1688-89 was the culmination of a long and vitriolic argument about how to transform England into a modern nation,” Pincus writes. He suggests that later generations took the achievements of the Glorious Revolution for granted. With the passage of time, it boomed less louder, and its effects were perhaps subtler. But the argument had hardly ended. The Glorious Revolution inaugurated a new phase in history, in which commerce supplanted landed wealth as the ultimate guarantor of economic success, and the “Dutch model” became the way of the world. Though the later revolutions in America and France would revise the terms of the liberal state – the first toward democracy, the second toward equality – the world made by 1688, as Pincus so adroitly demonstrates, is the one in which we still live today.

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