I just finished 1688 - The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus. I picked it up on a lark in a cool used book store in Fredricksburg last month. Prior to reading this book, I knew basically nothing about The Glorious Revolution that turfed James II out and replaced him with William and Mary.

The take of this book is that The Glorious Revolution was a bigger impact than commonly thought and was a pivotal moment in the creation of the modern state in England. It’s a very academic book with a great amount of detail and copious notes but it reads well.

As an academic book, it assumed a solid knowledge of the basics of the period. I didn’t have that so I had to look up a bunch of things (e.g. High Church vs Low Church, Jacobite, association, nonjurors, etc.) which was fine as I learned a lot. Puts me in the mood to read John Locke.