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Article: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History.
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 1998
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The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary England: An Essay on the Fabrication of Seventeenth-Century History, by Alastair MacLachlan. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. vii, 431 pp. $39.95 U.S.
In 1993, at the launch of the festschrift in his honour, the seventeenth-century historian Gerald Aylmer paid tribute to his own Balliol College mentor, Christopher Hill, remarking on the latter's prolific output of books in the fifteen years since his festschrift. Hill, still active as this review is written, is the central figure in Alastair MacLachlan's study of the rise and fall of the "revolutionary" paradigm in seventeenth-century history, from its heyday in the 1930s and ...