| Description | | - Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to Stuart Britain
- Highly acclaimed text, first published in the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
- Revised and updated for this edition
- Written by one of the most prolific historians of the English Revolution
- Indispensable for students and general readers
| | 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.
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Readership: The general reader or students of the Stuart period of British history.
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
Society and economic life
2.
Government and law
3.
The early Stuarts
4.
The Civil Wars
5.
Commonwealth and Protectorate
6.
Restoration monarchy
7.
Intellectual and religious life
Further reading
Chronology
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge University
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