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The Historical Revolution, 1580-1640. By F. Smith Fussner. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 45s.) REVOLUTIONS, as Marx very nearly said, are the locomotives of historians' careers. The......

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Crossroads of Power. Sir Lewis Namier. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) NAMIER'S qualities never shone more brightly than in the essay : indeed, he rarely attempted anything else, for......