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

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-582-06551-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

Reihe: Modern Wars In Perspective

Ian Gentles provides a riveting, in-depth analysis of the battles and sieges, as well as the political and religious struggles that underpinned them. Based on extensive archival and secondary research he undertakes the first sustained attempt to arrive at global estimates of the human and economic cost of the wars. The many actors in the drama are appraised with subtlety. Charles I, while partly the author of his own misfortune, is shown to have been at moments an inspirational leader.

The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms is a sophisticated, comprehensive, exciting account of the sixteen years that were the hinge of British and Irish history. It encompasses politics and war, personalities and ideas, embedding them all in a coherent and absorbing narrative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gentles, I. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.