Charles I [Paperback]

Richard Cust (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 21, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1405859032 | ISBN-13: 978-1405859035 | Edition: 1

The best available biography of Charles I.

• The first full length biography of Charles I to be published for over twenty years
• Extremely popular period of history - will be of interest to the thousands of re-enactors involved in societies such as the 'Sealed Knot'
• Hardback edition received outstanding reviews in the history press
• Longman books on this period, such as Coward’s The Stuart Age and Lockyer’s Tudor and Stuart Britain have an excellent sales record
  

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Richard Cust's new biography (is) by far the best to date... This is an outstanding piece of work: not only the best life of the king yet produced, but also the most subtle and balanced synthesis of current research on the politics and religion of the reign currently in print.'
John Adamson, BBC History

'Cust comes as close to producing a definitive account of the nature of Charles I's kingship as anyone is likely to do for a long time... We should be grateful....for this brilliantly conceived and deeply pondered work. It becomes a crucial point of reference, always trustworthy and enlightening.'
Anthony Fletcher, History Today, May 2006

'...the most impressive aspect of the book is the way that interwoven in the narrative is a consistent, novel and coherent view of Charles the politician. What is novel about Dr. Cust’s view is that he is not content to put Charles’s political failures down simply, as many recent historians have done, to the king’s lack of political ability. His explanations are more subtle and, thus, more convincing.'
Professor Barry Coward, Birkbeck College, London; author of The Stuart Age: England1603-1714 (Longman, 2003)

About the Author

Richard Cust has been a History lecturer, at Birmingham University for twenty five years and over this time he has published a series of books and articles which have helped to set the agenda for a ‘post revisionist’ account of early Stuart politics. His books include The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626-1628 and Conflict in Early Stuart England (edited with Ann Hughes), another Longman publication.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 1 edition (July 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405859032
• ISBN-13: 978-1405859035
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Balanced, covers his virtues and why they were wrong for him, November 4, 2006

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This review is from: Charles I: A political life (Profiles in Power) (Hardcover)

A readable and balanced portrayal of Charles, showing his virtues as well as his faults. Charles was the wrong man for his circumstances, but not totally evil or inept at everything. He learned the wrong lessons from his life experiences, and in the end his private virtues such as loyalty to his servants meant he could not compromise when it was necessary. This biography gives good insight into Charles and what went wrong.