revolutionary contexts, attempting to pinpoint the forces that led to the English revolution. Ultimately he wants to answer the question: what did this upheaval accomplish?
There is little or no doubt in Stone's mind that, on balance, the English revolution left the nation in better shape than it had been in. For one thing, the middle class was allowed to emerge and this event made itself felt in the representative Parliament. At the same time, religious tolerance grew out of this period, a very positive thing considering the repression that marked some of Europe during the same epoch. Finally, as has already been mentioned, there was a finer delineation between the king and Parliament. The distribution of power granted a greater eq
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