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The English Civil War : conflict and contexts, 1640-49 / edited by John Adamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Problems in focus series (Palgrave (Firm))
- Problems in focus
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Social aspects.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1649.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 344 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2009]
- Summary:
- The decade of the English Civil War - the 1640s - remains one of the most controversial and intensely debated episodes in English history. This edited collection of essays, by leading historians in the field, offers a new and fascinating survey of the major themes of the period, including: the long-neglected 'king's party' in the conflict - the Royalists; the relation between the English conflict and the parallel struggles in Scotland and Ireland; the role of religion as a cause of the war and determinant of allegiance; the importance of the emergent 'public sphere' - the world of cheap print and partisan propaganda - in forming attitudes for, and against, the king and Parliament; and the question of how provincial was politics in the provinces.
- John Adamson's illuminating Introduction offers a major reassessment of the subject's historiography, while the volume as a whole firmly locates English events within a broader 'three-kingdoms' context Drawing on original research and the latest scholarship - and challenging current orthodoxies - this essential resource for students and scholars alike offers a distinctively fresh series of insights into the great midseventeenth-century crisis.
- Contents:
- David Scott rethinking royalist politics, 1642-49
- Anthony Milton Anglicanism and Royalism in the 1640s
- Jason Peacey perceptions of Parliament
- Jane Ohlmeyer The baronial context of the Irish Civil Wars
- Allan I. Macinnes The "Scottish moment", 1638-45
- Clive Holmes centre and locality in Civil War England
- Ian Gentles the politics of Fairfax's army, 1645-49
- Philip Baker rhetoric, reality, and the varieties of Civil War radicalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780333986554
- 0333986555
- 9780333986561
- 0333986563
- OCLC:
- 263146982
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