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The making of Oliver Cromwell / Ronald Hutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutton, Ronald, author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Cromwell, Oliver.
- Heads of state--Great Britain--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (435 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
- Contents:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A NOTE ON STYLE
- MAPS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE PREHISTORIC CROMWELL
- THE PROBLEM
- THE SETTING
- FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE
- EARLY POLITICAL ACTIVITY
- RELIGION
- 2 MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND CAPTAIN OF HORSE
- ELECTIONS
- POLITICAL DEBUT
- THE MATURE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
- INTO THE FIELD
- THE CAVALRY CAPTAIN
- 3 THE CAVALRY COLONEL
- THE ARMED POLICEMAN
- FIRST BLOOD
- THE EARL OF MANCHESTER'S ARMY
- 4 THE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
- REMAKING THE ARMY
- THE SLOW SPRING
- TRIUMPH IN THE NORTH
- THE SOUR AUTUMN
- NEWBURY
- 5 BORROWED TIME
- FURORE
- NEW MODELLING
- THE INTERIM CAMPAIGN: THE WEST COUNTRY
- THE INTERIM CAMPAIGN: THE MIDLANDS
- 6 THE GLORIOUS YEAR
- NASEBY
- RETURN TO THE WEST5
- AUTUMN OF SIEGES
- WINTER CAMPAIGN
- ENDGAME
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26275-2
- OCLC:
- 1260343172
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