The English Civil War Rebellion and Revolution in the Kingdoms of Charles I

The Civil Wars provides a critical new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed all three Stuart kingdoms in the mid-Seventeenth century. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies on a variety of fronts, these essays offer a distinctly original perspective on the Stuart kingdoms' most traumatic decade.

JOHN ADAMSON is Fellow in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.

Introduction: High Roads and Blind Allies: the Historiography of the English Civil War; J.Adamson * The Scottish Moment; A.Macinnes * The Baronial Context of the Civil War in Ireland; J.Ohlmeyer * Allegiance and its Illusions: Loyalties in England, 1642-69; J.Adamson * Rethinking Royalist Politics, 1642-49; D.Scott * Royalism and Politics Ideas; A.Milton * Hocus-Pocus Politics: Parliamentary Factions and the Public; J.Peacey * A Few Engaged Men: London, the Covenant and the Politics of Settlement; E.Vernon * The Politics of the New Model Army; I.Gentles * The Localities; C.Holmes * Worlds-Turn'd-Upside-Down: The Radicals and the Press; P.Baker * Index