The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652

ISBN-13: 9780582065512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 544 str.

Ian Gentles

Opis

The English revolution was a shattering experience for the people of Ireland and Scotland as well, as war broke out successively in - and between - all three kingdoms. Ian Gentles provides analysis of the battles and sieges and the political and religious struggles that underpinned them.

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CONTENTS

Prologue

1: Rebellion in the North  

2: The Irish Insurgency, 1641-2   

3: The outbreak of civil war in England, 1640-42

4: Building and Fuelling the Machinery of War: Recruitment, Finance, Logistics

5: Popular Allegiance in the English Civil War

6: War in England: the first year, 1642-3   

7: The hinge year: 1643-4

8: Hope revived: royalists counterattack, roundheads regroup, September 1644 – May 1645  

9:  The King Vanquished, 1645-6   

10: The wars carried on by other means: the political struggles of 1646-1648  

11: The War of the Engagement – 1648

12: Regicide and Republic  

13: Ormond, Cromwell, the Levellers and Ireland  

14: War between Scotlandand England, 1650-51  

15: Audit of war: the human and material cost

Epilogue   

O autorze

Ian Gentles is Visiting Professor of History at Tyndale College, Toronto . His books include The New Model Army (1992), and he has contributed numerous articles to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .