Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 244 p)
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Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472599605
Content:
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Why Did Charles I Call the Long Parliament?; 2 How did the King Gain Support in Parliament?; 3 How Did the King Get an Army?; 4 Why Did Parliament Win the Civil War?; 5 Why Was the King Executed?; 6 Why Was the Rump Parliament Dissolved?; 7 Why Was Cromwell Offered the Crown?; 8 Was There and English Revolution?; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index --
Content:
The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary political event. It followed a bitter Civil War between parliament and the king, and their total failure to negotiate a subsequent peace settlement. Why the king was defeated and executed has been a central question in English history, being traced back to the Reformation and forward to the triumph of parliament in the eighteenth century. The old answers, whether those of the Victorian narrative historian S.R. Gardiner or of Lawrence Stone's diagnosis of a fatal long-term rift in English society, however, no longer satisfy, while the newer ones of local historians and 'revisionists' often leave readers unclear as to why the Civil War happened at all. In Why Was Charles I Executed? Clive Holmes supplies clear answers to eight key questions about the period, ranging from why the king had to summon the Long Parliament to whether there was in fact an English Revolution
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-231) and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781852852825
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Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472599605
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