The English revolution was a shattering experience for the people of Ireland and Scotland as well as England, as wars broke out successively in - and between - all three kingdoms. This work gives an account of the sixteen years that were the hinge of British and Irish history. It also encompasses politics and war, and personalities and ideas.
The English revolution was a shattering experience for the people of Ireland and Scotland as well as England, as wars broke out successively in - and between - all three kingdoms. This work gives an account of the sixteen years that were the hinge of British and Irish history. It also encompasses politics and war, and personalities and ideas.
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 .
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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
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
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