The English Civil War The Essential Readings

by Gaunt, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631208082
• ISBN10: 0631208089
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book brings together twelve of the most influential articles on the English Civil War, including coverage of all the major debates on this key period in British history.

Author Biography

Peter Gaunt is Reader in History at Chester College of Higher Education. He is Chairman of the Cromwell Association and has published widely on military, political and constitutional aspects of the mid-seventeenth century. His previous books include Oliver Cromwell (Blackwell, 1996) and The British Civil Wars 1637-1651 (Routledge, 1997).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Editor's Introduction	1	(4)
Part I Approaches to the 1640s	5	(28)
What was the English Revolution?	14	(19)
John Morrill, Brian Manning
David Underdown
Part II Causes of the Civil War	33	(112)
The English Revolution and the Revisionist Revolt	59	(20)
Mary Fulbrook
The British Problem and the English Civil War	79	(25)
Conrad Russell
Opposition to the Personal Rule of Charles I: the Diary of Robert Woodford, 1637--1641	104	(24)
John Fielding
Why did Charles I Call the Long Parliament?	128	(11)
Conrad Russell
Why did Charles I Fight the Civil War?	139	(6)
Conrad Russell
Part III The Course of the Civil War	145	(124)
Between Scylla and Charybdis: the Creation of Rival Administrations at the Beginning of the English Civil War	167	(17)
Martyn Bennett
Sir William Brereton and England's Wars of Religion	184	(23)
John Morrill
The Defection of Sir Edward Dering, 1640--1641	207	(19)
Derek Hirst
The War, the People and the Absence of the Clubmen in the Midlands, 1642--1646	226	(23)
Simon Osborne
England Turned Germany? The Aftermath of the Civil War in its European Context	249	(20)
Ian Roy
Part IV Consequences of the Civil War	269	(78)
The Levellers and Christianity	279	(24)
J. Colin Davis
Charles Stuart, That Man of Blood	303	(21)
Patricia Crawford
A Bourgeois Revolution?	324	(23)
Christopher Hill
Select Bibliography	347	(4)
Index	351