I.J. Gentles

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Modern Wars In Perspective
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780582065512
• ISBN-10: 0582065518
• Artikelnr.: 22734170

Autorenporträt

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 .

Inhaltsangabe

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