History Review, March 1st, 2001
Richard Wilkinson takes issue with the consensus view by pointing to atrocities in the civil war.
`This war was eminently humane', alleged G.M. Trevelyan in his England under the Stuarts. Trevelyan was a propagandist. He wrote from the heart as well as from the head. Expressing his Whig ideology `with tremendous gusto' (J.H. Plumb), he attributed `the moral splendour of our Great Rebellion and Civil War' to the idealism of its participants. `In England the revolutionary passions were stirred by no class in its own material interest'.(1) Because its participants fought over the issue of Brit...
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