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 The Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 - Trevor Royle
Description: ISBN 0349115648 / Author: Trevor Royle / Genre: History Newest Review: ... fought,; most of the Puritan’s came from the same landed gentry as the Royalists. The Protectorate could never survive the ... more  ... loss of Cromwell’s tyrannical genius thus a Restoration of the Monarchy seemed plausible.
Rabid Religious Fervour mixed with constitutional theorizing: the War left only existing Political conflict and not a unified state, yet within that conflict you have both the birth of Constitutional Monarchy and two-way Party Politics.
As you may have noticed: It’s the ‘British’ Wars as opposed to the English Civil War.
The fuse that lit the English Civil War after all was lit in Scotland with the rejection of the Laudian Praye...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN: 034
Pages: 912, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Abacus - Books/Subje ... |
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Format: Hardback, ISBN: 9780316861250
Pages: 888, Hardcover, Little, Brown - Books/Subjects/History/Bri ... |
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The Civil War: The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 - Trevor Royle: Cromwell's Sword (442 words)
by sean82uk - written on 09/10/06 (Useful, 87 readings)
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Unlike America with its Independence Day and France with its Bastille Day, Britain doesn’t seem to possess a single epochal day representing a sublime yet horrific Revolutionary watershed, yet the British Wars which raged in the 17th Century are every bit as revolutionary and world changing then either of those two experiences.. Perhaps the problem is to do with the very contradictions created: a war began to ‘Check’ a King to Parliament yet it left a Republic and a Military Dictatorship every bit more despotic then Charles and his hated Star Chamber. It was never a class war as often fought,; most of the Puritan’s came from the same landed gentry as the ...
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