Smith Cromwell and the Interregnum

The Essential Readings
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4314-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Essential Readings in History

This book brings together eight of the most influential recentarticles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum.
* * Brings together seminal articles on Oliver Cromwell and theInterregnum.
* Illuminates the personality of Cromwell and hisachievements.
* Includes treatments of Ireland and Scotland alongsidediscussion of England.
* Editorial material introduces students to the historiographicalissues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, David L.

Smith, David Lee

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Editor's Introduction.
1. Oliver Cromwell, the Regicide and the Sons of Zeruiah (JohnMorrill, University of Cambridge and Philip Baker, AssociateEditor, The New Dictionary of National Biography).
2. Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan (Blair Worden,University of Sussex).
3. The Cromwellian Protectorate: A Military Dictatorship?(Austin Woolrych, University of Lancaster).
4. 'The Single Person's Confidants and Dependents'? OliverCromwell and his Protectoral Councilors (Peter Gaunt, UniversityCollege, Chester).
5. Oliver Cromwell and the Localities: The Problem of Consent(Anthony Fletcher).
6. Cromwell's Religion (Colin Davis, University of EastAnglia).
7. Oliver Cromwell, the First Protectorate Parliament andReligious Reform (David L. Smith, University of Cambridge).
8. Cromwell, Scotland and Ireland (David Stevenson, Universityof St. Andrews).
Timeline.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Smith is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize and Cambridge University's Thirlwall Prize for Historical Research. He is the author of eight previous books on various aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history including Oliver Cromwell (1991), A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707 (Blackwell, 1998), and The Stuart Parliaments, 1603--1689 (1999).