Research Catalog

Title

The English Civil War : a people's history / Diane Purkiss.

Author

Purkiss, Diane, 1961-

Publication

London : HarperPress, 2006.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 627 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This history of the English Civil War, culminating in the execution of Charles I, brings to life the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. Drawing on exciting new sources including letters, memoirs, ballads, plays, illustrations and material from private collections, Diane Purkiss tells the story of this critical era not just as the battle of ideas, but as the histories of the vibrant characters who conceived them."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• History
• Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1642-1649 (Guerre civile)
• Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-601) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 000715061X (hbk.)
• 9780007150618 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 62474208
• SCSB-10868840

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library