The English Civil War : Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain / Diane Purkiss.
Record details
- ISBN: 0465067565
- ISBN: 000715061X (UK)
- Physical Description: xxiii, 627 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published as: The English Civil War: a people's history. London : Harpep Press, 2006. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-601) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1649. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 941.062 P985e 2006 (Text) | 33126013645225 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | 941.062 P985e 2006 (Text) | 33126013645233 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |