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| Gattung/Form: | Nonfiction History |
|---|---|
| Dokumenttyp | Buch |
| Alle Autoren: |
Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN: | 9780465067565 0465067565 9780465067572 0465067573 |
| OCLC-Nummer: | 69021101 |
| Anmerkungen: | Originally published as: The English Civil War: a people's history. London : Harper Press, 2006. |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 627 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Inhalt: | The last cavalier? -- The meek-eyed peace -- Two women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay -- The bishops' wars, the three kingdoms, and montrose -- Pym against the Papists -- Stand up, shout Mars -- The valley of decision -- Bright-harnessed angels: edgehill -- Down with bishops and bells: iconoclasm -- The death of dreams -- The war over Christmas -- The queen's tale: Henrietta Maria -- Newbury fight -- Two capitals: Oxford and London -- The bitterness of war -- Two marriages -- The power of heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell -- The cookery writers' tales: General Hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the Deer of Corse Lawn -- Twenty thousand Cornish boys: the Battle of Lostwithiel -- The nation's nightmares -- Th' easy earth that covers her: the children's tales -- God with us! Montrose's campaign -- New professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman -- The world is turned upside down: the new model army and Naseby fight -- Ashes: the siege of Taunton and the clubmen -- The birds in the Greenwoods are mated together: Anne Halkett and the escape of James II -- Nor iron bars a cage: the capture of Charles I -- A new heaven and a new earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers -- Stand up now, stand up now: Gerrard Winstanley and the diggers -- The second civil war -- To Carisbrooke's narrow case: Charles I in captivity -- Oh, he is gone, and now hath left us here: the trial and execution of Charles I -- Into another mould? The aftermath. |
| Verfasserangabe: | Diane Purkiss. |
Abstract:
A history of the English Civil War-one of the great turning points in Western political history-told through the remarkable experiences of the men and women who lived through it
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