Download or read book The Army in Cromwellian England 1649 1660 written by Henry Reece and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1649 to 1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. This is the first study to describe the nature of that experience, both for members of the army and for civilian society. It offers new perspectives on Oliver Cromwell, the Major-Generals, and the reasons for the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.

Download or read book The British Republic 1649 1660 written by Ronald Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes the diplomatic, military, political, religious and intellectual developments of the period, trying to determine the real significance of the Interegnum. The author also presents a study of Cromwell, and how contemporary research has brought more light to his life.

Download or read book England Without a King 1649 1660 written by Austin Woolrych and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the period in which the country lost its king and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. This is used to examine the Commonwealth and the Protectorate where Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on these areas.

Download or read book The English Republic 1649 1660 written by T.C. Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins by introducing the complicated events leading to the execution of Charles I in 1649 and then offers a detailed analysis of the political experimentation which followed. Toby Barnard argues that although the survival of the revolutionary order was bound up with Cromwell, and collapsed after his death, the regime defeated both its domestic and foreign enemies and was more stable than has often been thought. The book also investigates changes on the structures of power, on the ruling elites and in the localities.

Download or read book Royalist Conspiracy in England 1649 1660 written by David Underdown and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A study of the vast underground movement organized by the Cavaliers to overthrow the Commonwealth and Protectorate governments by insurrection and sub-version.”-Publisher.

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649 1660 1649 1651 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth Protectorate 1649 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649 1660 1651 1654 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cromwellos Army The English Soldier 1642 1660 written by C. H. Frith and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until Oliver Cromwell s New Model Army set the standard for the British Army Britain was badly served by her land forces. The fleet had protected this island from invasion, and had it not been effective and reasonably efficient there is little doubt that a determined force of moderate size could have landed, and captured the seat of government in London with little resistance from the land forces of James I or Charles I. This book looks at the army Cromwell built, and how it was organised, trained and how it operated. Firth gives the background to the military situation on the eve of the English Civil War, and then explains why the New Model Army was needed, both by Cromwell and by the nation. He delves into the infantry, the cavalry and the artillery and gives a good account of siege warfare, still a part of operational technique. Firth goes on to give details of the administration of the army: how it was paid, how it was fed and watered, how it was clothed, equipped and mounted. He also describes the social aspects of this army - care of the wounded and old soldiers (something completely revolutionary), and he accounts for the discipline in the army. Last of all he looks at religion and politics in the army. of which much has been written, and which here is explained in the most straightforward manner, something that many modern writers fail to do.

Download or read book History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by Elibron Classics. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894, London and New York

Download or read book Stuart Britain A Very Short Introduction written by John Morrill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys pull apart. It gives a graphic account of the effects of a century-long period during which population was growing inexorably and faster than both the food supply and the employment market. It looks at the failed attempts of successive governments to make all those under their authority obedient members of a unified national church; it looks at how Charles I blundered into a civil war which then took on a terrifying momentum of its own. The result was his trial and execution, the abolition of the monarchy, the house of lords, the bishops, the prayer book and the celebration of Christmas. As a result everything else that people took for granted came up for challenge, and this book shows how painfully and with what difficulty order and obedience was restored. Vividly illustrated and full of startling detail, this is an ideal introduction to those interested in getting into the period, and also contains much to challenge and stimulate those who already feel at home in Stuart England. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Download or read book The Swordsmen in Power written by David Roger Hainsworth and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hainsworth's study of the English Republic traces its birth at the execution of Charles I in 1649 to the political confusion after Cromwell's death which culminates in the quite unexpected restoration of Charles II.

Download or read book The English Revolution 1600 1660 written by Eric William Ives and published by New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1968 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Providence Lost written by Paul Lay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-Generals – bureaucrats with a penchant for closing alehouses – backfires spectacularly. Sectarianism and fundamentalism run riot. Radicals and royalists join together in conspiracy. The only way out seems to be a return to a Parliament presided over by a king. But will Cromwell accept the crown? Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government: he brings the febrile world of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to life, providing vivid portraits of the extraordinary individuals who inhabited it and capturing its dissonant cacophony of political and religious voices. ***************** Reviews: 'Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade' John Adamson, The Times. 'Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence' Jessie Childs, Guardian.

Download or read book Oliver Cromwell written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes Cromwell's quotes about his life and career *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities...are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by." - Oliver Cromwell "Put your trust in God, my boys, but keep your powder dry." - attributed to Oliver Cromwell For over a thousand years, England has had a monarchy, and though the line of succession did not always pass smoothly, it has almost always been continuous. England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic. Following the disastrous reign of Charles I and the civil wars that led to his execution, Parliament and the army ruled England. England's republican experiment started out as a work of collaboration and compromise; lords, army officers and members of Parliament (MPs) worked together to find a political settlement that did not include the despised royal House of Stuart. Nonetheless, religious and political division made collective rule unworkable, and ultimately, one man emerged from the chaos to rule the country. He had risen from a humble background to become the leading general of the Civil Wars, and as a man of staunch beliefs and ruthless pragmatism, he controlled England from 1653-1658 under the title of Lord Protector. In essence, he was a king in all but name. That man was Oliver Cromwell, and in the popular imagination, Cromwell has overshadowed the rest of the leaders of the parliamentary cause and the New Model Army. His name is known by everyone in England, while parliamentary leaders like John Pym, constitutional reformers like John Lambert, and even Sir Thomas Fairfax, who led Parliament's army through most of the wars, are known only to history buffs. But Cromwell has also been one of the most controversial figures in English history ever since. Viewed by some as a despot and others as a champion of liberty, Cromwell's legacy is so diverse that while many Irish accuse him of genocide, others look at him as a social revolutionary. To this day Cromwell is a hugely divisive figure, hated by the Irish for his brutality, loathed by monarchists, but admired by republicans and English reformers. A film was released in 1970 celebrating his political career, and St Ives, one of his home towns, is host to a statue of the man. Of course, some observers recognize contradictions in Cromwell, such as the 20th century Scottish writer John Buchan, who may have summed the Lord Protector's life up best: "A devotee of law, he was forced to be often lawless; a civilian to the core, he had to maintain himself by the sword; with a passion to construct, his task was chiefly to destroy; the most scrupulous of men, he had to ride roughshod over his own scruples and those of others; the tenderest, he had continually to harden his heart; the most English of our greater figures, he spent his life in opposition to the majority of Englishmen; a realist, he was condemned to build that which could not last." Oliver Cromwell: The Notorious Life and Legacy of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England chronicles the tumultuous life of one of England's most important figures. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about Cromwell like never before, in no time at all.