Scarecrow Press, 2000. — 300 p. During the 17th century, the British Isles were trapped in a 23 year-long state of turmoil through civil war, continued rebellion, and revolutions. King Charles I wanted to instill a new uniform religious policy throughout the British Isles, and this caused a massive uproar over the King's policies toward the diverse people in his empire-the...
Boston. D.C.Heath and Co. 1966. — 112 p. Although he became one of the most famous figures in English history, Oliver Cromwell began life as an ordinary country gentleman. When the English Civil War broke out in 1642, he was a middle-aged father of five children with no military training. Yet within a decade he “mounted himself into the throne of the three kingdoms [England,...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 784 p. The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. It destroyed families and towns, ravaged the population and led many, both supporters of Charles I and his opponents, to believe that England’s people were being punished by a vengeful God. This masterly new...
Routledge, 1994. — 465 p. In the 1640s, thousands of young men in the British Isles set off to fight in the civil wars, full of enthusiasm and commitment to the cause. They were soon to be disillusioned. Accustomed to a relatively peaceful and secure way of life, the realities of battle - the mental strain, physical exhaustion, loneliness and violence - were devastating. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 367 p. The concept of kingship as Charles I understood it was challenged by the Covenanters in a struggle of protest over the government of Scotland. Although many aspects of this episode have received historical attention, Charles's own role has not hitherto been investigated in detail. Using a large body of newly available evidence, Dr...
London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2018. — xvii, 312 p. : 27 b/w illustrations. Signs and Wonders in Britain’s Age of Revolution is an original collection of primary sources from the era encompassing the political, religious, and social tumult of the English Civil War. With a focus on Britain in the seventeenth century and covering topics such as astrology,...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. Jane Whorwood was one of Charles I’s closest confidantes. The wife of an Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, she helped the royalist cause by spying for the king, and smuggling gold (perhaps as much as 1,000 kg) to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the...
Grove Press, 2001. — 576 p. In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 192 p. This book places the political thought of mid-seventeenth-century England within the context of the English civil wars and offers fresh insights into the principles on which two of the great figures of political thought, Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington, constructed their main arguments. Arihiro Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 355 p. This is a collection of essays about major aspects of the "English Revolution" of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how it was fought (soldiers), how it was defended and argued over (writers), and how it was shaped and how it failed (statesmen). The essays are written by both established and younger scholars of the period in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 - 272 p. ISBN10: 0230204007 ISBN13: 9780230204003 (eng) The trial of the seven bishops in 1688 was a signifcant prelude to the Glorious Revolution, as popular support for the bishops led to a widespread welcome for William of Orange's invasion. Their prosecution showed James II at his most intolerant, and threatened the only institution for which most...
Phoenix Press, 2001. — 571 p. A fine book so obviously the fruit of devoted labour, there is everything to enjoy in it. A sympathetic modern biography of the man who was right at the heart of all the struggles in the 17th century--and a thoroughly researched history that reads like the thriller it is. Written in a bold and evocative style, this engrossing volume weaves an...
3rd Edition. — Future Publishing, 2019. — 164 p. The mid-17th century was one of the most explosive periods in history across the British Isles. In England, a desperate king fought bitterly against his defiant Parliament; in Scotland religious turmoil sparked invasions from the north; and in Ireland, an oppressive regime led to an all-out Catholic rebellion. In this bookazine,...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 587 p. From Restoration to Crisis, c. 1660 – 1681 The Nation Would Not Stand Long: Weaknesses of the Restoration Monarchy in England Popery and Arbitrary Government: The Restoration in Ireland and Scotland and the Makings of the British Problem Fearing for the Safety of the People: The Popish Plot, Exclusion and the Nature of the Whig Challenge, c....
Penguin Books, 2007. — 714 p. James II and VII, 1685–8 The Accession of the True and Lawful Heir Meeting the Radical Challenge: The Scottish and English Parliaments and the Rebellions of Argyll and Monmouth ‘That unhappy Island of Ireland’ Scotland Under James VII Catholic Absolutism in England Revolutions in Three Kingdoms, 1688–91 Yielding an Active Obedience Only According...
Penguin Books, 1984. — 432 p. Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic — the ideology of the propertied class — there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success “might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished...
Penguin Books, 2015. — 328 p. Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel, Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated and great dynasties...
Routledge, 1999. — 307 p. — Second Edition. The English Civil War (1642-1646) remains the most prolonged and traumatic example of internal violence in the history of the state. The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 shows the build up to the outbreak of the war, detailing how the war was fought, and how, ultimately, it was won and lost. In his new introduction to this second...
Macmillan Education, 1990 - 158 c. 1 The Commonwealth. I The Central Regime. II The Localities. III British and European Affairs. 2 The Protectorate. I Central Government. II The Localities. III British and European Affairs. 3 From Protectorate to Monarchy.
Penguin Books, 2014. — 144 p. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 268 p. Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This pioneering volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were...
Ashgate, 2007. — 415 p. George Goring was in many ways the archetypal cavalier; often portrayed as possessing all the worst characteristics associated with the followers of King Charles I. He drank copiously, dressed and entertained lavishly, gambled excessively, abandoned his wife frequently, and was quick to resort to swordplay when he felt his honour was at stake. Yet, he...
London. Robinson. 2012. - 230 c. The English Civil War is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History. Miller explores what triggered the initial conflict between crown and parliament and how this was played out in England, Scotland and Ireland in the lead - up to war. As the war developed, personalities and innovations on the battlefield became increasingly...
London. Robinson. 2012. - 230 c. The English Civil War is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History. Miller explores what triggered the initial conflict between crown and parliament and how this was played out in England, Scotland and Ireland in the lead - up to war. As the war developed, personalities and innovations on the battlefield became increasingly...
Routledge, 1998. — 162 p. The English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War, including the campaigns of Montrose, the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to...
The University of York, 1978. — 592 p. Officer Lists and extensive biographical details of the Northern Royalists during the English Civil War of 1642-1646. Peter Newman examines why this high profile group of royalists took the risks they did and he explores how their role in the Civil War is an important key to our understanding of the wider questions of Royalist ideology and...
The University of York, 1978. Pages: 552. Officer Lists and extensive biographical details of the Northern Royalists during the English Civil War of 1642-1646. Peter Newman examines why this high profile group of royalists took the risks they did and he explores how their role in the Civil War is an important key to our understanding of the wider questions of Royalist ideology...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 247 p. This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, in the spring of 1641 and ending with that of...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 357 p. Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam....
Cambridge: University Press, 2003. - 340 p. This study of the character and policies of Charles I provides an analysis of the political crisis leading to his personal rule in England during the years before the civil wars. It fills a gap in the historical literature of the period by integrating ideological with political developments and English with international affairs. It...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 416 p. The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single volume treatment of the subject, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the larger body of radical thought of which it became the most influential component....
London: Routledge, 2002. - 288 p. With numerous maps and illustrations, James Scott Wheeler connects the strategic and tactical levels of war with political actions and reactions, and discusses how Britain and Ireland became battlegrounds in the 'war of three kingdoms'. The various stages of this period of turmoil are clearly demonstrated, right through to the execution of...
Routledge, 1999. — 137 p. Illustrations Series Preface The background to the crisis of 1637–1640 The emergence of Royalists and Roundheads, 1640–1642 The war machines, 1642–1646 The victors fall out and the emergence of radicalism, 1646–1649 The trial and execution of King Charles I and the constitutional consequences, 1649–1653 The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, 1653–1658...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 267 p. Between the meeting of the Long Parliament in November 1640 and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and as a consequence of the defeat of the armies of Charles I and the Civil Wars and the failure of subsequent royalist conspiracies and rising, several hundred Cavaliers went into exile on the Continent, for periods ranging from a few...
London: John Murray, 1844. — 199 p. The lives of Oliver Cromwell ( Puritan leader and Lord Protector of England during the English Civil War ) and John Bunyan ( preacher and author of " The Pilgrim`s Progress " ).
Boydell Press, 2003. — 337 p. This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the extent of the phenomenon. Initially a reaction to the emphasis on ceremony and the 'beauty of holiness' under Archbishop Laud, the attack on...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 399 p. — (The Northern World 23). On 23 July 1637, riots broke out in Edinburgh. These disturbances triggered the collapse of royal authority across the British Isles. This volume explores the political and religious culture in the Scottish capital from the reign of James VI and I to the Cromwellian occupation. It examines for the first time...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2011. — 549 p. In the followup to his "vivid, ardent, and engaging" John Donne: The Reformed Soul (New York Review of Books), John Stubbs finds his next subject in the turbulent period of the English Civil War. With a centuries-old conflict between the monarchy and Parliament threatening to explode, a group of poets known as Cavaliers emerged to defend...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 266 p. Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution. An exercise in writing the 'new political history', the volume challenges the discrete categories of high and popular politics and the presumed boundaries between national and local history. It offers the...
Barnsley, UK : Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 240 p., maps, plates. In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I,...
Future Publishing Ltd., 2017. — 164 p. The mid-17th century was one of the most explosive periods in history across the British Isles. In England, a desperate king fought bitterly against his defiant Parliament; in Scotland religious turmoil sparked invasions from the north; and in Ireland, an oppressive regime led to an all-out Catholic rebellion. In this bookazine, we explore...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. - 827 p. ISBN: 0-19-820081-1 Review "Austin Woolrych has now written probably the only book on the English Civil War that you are ever likely to need. he brings to the subject a detailed grasp of the culture of the times and a vivid understanding of the turbulent mid-seventeenth century mind. All this is diluted in this this is distilled...
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