The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 write by I.J. Gentles. This book was released on 2014-06-06. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 write by I.J. Gentles. This book was released on 2014-06-06. The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars
Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars write by Michelle White. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The influence exercised by Queen Henrietta Maria over her husband Charles I during the English Civil Wars, has long been a subject of interest. To many of her contemporaries, especially those sympathetic to Parliament, her French origins and Catholic beliefs meant that she was regarded with great suspicion. Later historians picking up on this, have spent much time arguing over her political role and the degree to which she could influence the decisions of her husband. What has not been so thoroughly investigated, however, are issues surrounding the popular perceptions of the Queen that inspired the plethora of pamphlets, newsbooks and broadsides. Although most of these documents are polemical propaganda devices that tell us little about the actual power wielded by Henrietta Maria, they do throw much light on how contemporaries viewed the King and Queen, and their relationship. The picture created by Charles and Henrietta's enemies was one of a royal household in patriarchal disorder. The Queen was characterized as an overly assertive, unduly influential, foreign, Catholic queen consort, whilst Charles was portrayed as a submissive and weak husband. Such an image had wide political ramifications, resulting in accusations that Charles was unfit to rule, and thus helping to justify Parliamentary resistance to the monarch. Because Charles had permitted his Catholic wife to interfere in state matters he stood accused of threatening the patriarchal order upon which all of society rested, and of imperilling the Church of England. In this book Michelle White tackles these dual issues of Henrietta's actual and perceived influence, and how this was portrayed in popular print by those sympathetic and hostile to her cause. In so doing she presents a vivid portrait of a strong willed woman who had a profound influence on the course of English history.
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution write by Michael J. Braddick. This book was released on 2015-03-05. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context.
Barbarians and Brothers
Barbarians and Brothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barbarians and Brothers write by Wayne E. Lee. This book was released on 2014. Barbarians and Brothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian Wayne Lee here presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, including the English Civil War and the American Revolution. He shows that, in the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demands absolute solutions: enemies are either to be incorporated or rejected, included or excluded. And that determination plays a major role in defining the violence used against them.
