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Article: City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution.
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 1998
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City of Capital. Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution, by Bruce C. Carruthers. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1979. xiv, 303 pp. $45.00 U.S.
Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable and Godly are words used to describe the Revolution of 1688-89, all the more remarkable, considering that event was not a revolution at all, but a coup d'etat involving a foreign invasion. Had it fizzled and the reigning king, James II, not been displaced by William and Mary, the retribution would have been so great that the Bloody Assizes and "Hanging" Judge Jeffreys would have paled in comparison. However, that was not the case, and the various adjectives ...