This is the second edition of Ronald Hutton's popular book on the unique period of history during which the British Isles were united under the rule of a republic, represented by a government and a series of Parliaments sitting at Westminster. It includes a new introductory section in which the author reviews the research undertaken into this period since the first edition appeared in 1990, and provides a personal and critical evaluation of it.
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"...well-written, thoughtful introductions to complicated periods that have been fought over by historians with wildly different opinions."--Albion
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Ronald Hutton is Professor of History, Bristol University.
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The King's execution, on 30 January 1649, was of course just the great dramatic centrepiece to a series of constitutional developments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decimation tax, congregational independents, minor gentry, lesser gentry, independent congregations, central politics, gathered congregations, religious radicals, gathered churches Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Purged Parliament, Council of State, Council of Officers, Fifth Monarchists, Great Civil War, Richard Cromwell, Little Parliament, Oliver Cromwell, English Revolution, Pride's Purge, British Isles, George Monck, Prayer Book, Church of England, Henry Cromwell, Humble Petition, Instrument of Government, Upper House, West Indies, Heads of Proposals, John Owen, Quarter Sessions, Second Protectorate Parliament, British Republic, High Sheriff New!
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The King's execution, on 30 January 1649, was of course just the great dramatic centrepiece to a series of constitutional developments. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decimation tax, congregational independents, minor gentry, lesser gentry, independent congregations, central politics, gathered congregations, religious radicals, gathered churches Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Purged Parliament, Council of State, Council of Officers, Fifth Monarchists, Great Civil War, Richard Cromwell, Little Parliament, Oliver Cromwell, English Revolution, Pride's Purge, British Isles, George Monck, Prayer Book, Church of England, Henry Cromwell, Humble Petition, Instrument of Government, Upper House, West Indies, Heads of Proposals, John Owen, Quarter Sessions, Second Protectorate Parliament, British Republic, High Sheriff New!
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- History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate: v. 2 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- English Revolution Pb (Advanced History Sourcebooks) by Barry Coward in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Regicide and Republicanism by Sarah Barber in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution (British History in Perspective (Palgrave Hardcover)) by Ian Gentles in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Oliver Cromwell (British Library Historic Lives (New York University Press)) by Peter Gaunt in Front Matter
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- John Locke (British History in Perspective (Paperback St. Martins)) by W. M. Spellman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603, Second Edition (British History in Perspective (Paperback St. Martins)) by Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch in Front Matter
- The Hundred Years War, Second Edition (British History in Perspective) by Anne Curry in Front Matter
- The Oxford English Grammar by Sidney Greenbaum in Back Matter
- The Glorious Revolution (British History in Perspective (Paperback St. Martins)) by Eveline Cruickshanks in Front Matter
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