The English Civil War 1640-1649

ISBN-13: 9780582353923 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str.

Martyn Bennett

Opis

This text deals not only with the military campaigns of the English Civil War, but also with the way war affected the people and institutions of mid-17th-century England. In addition, the book looks beyond England's borders and situates the war in its British context.

Spis treści

Part One:The Background,
1. The Anglo-Scottish War and the Short Parliament,
2. The Summer of 1640,
3. The Long Parliament,
4. The Approach of Civil War,

Part Two: Analysis - the English Civil War,
5. Opening Campaigns,
6. Organising the War,
7. Cries For Peace,
8. The War Progresses,
9. Paying For the War,
10.Parliamentary Politics,

Part Three: Analysis - Society in Dysfunction,
11. The Aftermath,
12. The Radical Debate,
13. The Engagement and the Second Civil War
14. Retribution and Revolution

Part Four: Assessment
15. Civil War and Revolution in Britain,

Part Five: Documents
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Martyn Bennett is Head of the History Division in the Department of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University.