Britain in Revolution: 1625-1660This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decades of the seventeenth century England, Scotland, and Ireland were convulsed by political upheaval and wracked by rebellion and civil war. The Stuart monarchy was in abeyance for twenty years in all three kingdoms, and Charles I famously met his death on the scaffold. Austin Woolrych breathes life back into the story of these years, the sweep of his prose buttressed by the authority of a lifetime's scholarship. He captures the drama and the passion, the momentum of events and the force of contingency. He brilliantly interweaves the history of the three kingdoms and their peoples, gripping the reader with the fast-paced yet always balanced story. |
Contents
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Storm over Scotland | 85 |
The Bishops Wars | 115 |
War in Three Kingdoms 16401646 | 153 |
Climacteric I a Posture of Defence | 155 |
Three Kingdoms in Crisis | 189 |
The Commonwealth in Crisis | 502 |
A Story of My Own Weakness and Folly? | 537 |
Cromwells Protectorate 16531658 | 561 |
A New Order in Three Nations | 563 |
The First Phase of Cromwellian Rule | 580 |
A Single Person and a Parliament | 601 |
Cavaliers in Arms Swordsmen in the Saddle | 616 |
King or Constable? | 638 |
The Blast of War | 234 |
The Conflict Widens | 268 |
Towards a Resolution | 296 |
Towards a Kingless Britain 16461649 | 333 |
Between Two Wars | 335 |
Climacteric II not a mere Mercenary Army | 366 |
The Second Civil War | 402 |
Quest for a Settlement | 434 |
The Commonwealth 16491653 | 459 |
The Commonwealth at War | 461 |
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