ABSTRACT
The Revolt of the Provinces was written in 1973 and 1974 and published early in 1976. It immediately established itself as one of the canonical works of the 'revisionist' school of historical writings. The genre of writing to which The Revolt of the Provinces was quickly assimilated certainly began as a rebellion against the attempt to graft onto an anachronistically-conceived political history some sort of social dimension. The appearance of Conrad Russell's Parliaments and English Politics seemed to crown the triumph of the new approach. The Causes of the English Revolution was a collection of three essays, but it was the third, which looked at the long-term causes, at the 'precipitants' and triggers, that generated the reaction. The genre of writing to which The Revolt of the Provinces was assimilated certainly began as a rebellion against the attempt to graft onto an anachronistically-conceived political history some sort of social dimension.
