Author: Christopher HibbertPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007394713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.
Cavaliers and Roundheads
Author: Christopher HibbertPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007394713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.
Cavaliers & Roundheads
Author: Bob MoulderPublisher: Tarquin Group
ISBN: 9781899618026
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Story of the Civil War with Stand-up Scenes This book tells the story by focusing on key dramatic events. We see, for instance, King Charles comein person to the House of Commons to arrest his enemies, the crucial battles of Lansdown Hill and Marston Moor, and the eventual Roundhead victory. Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell and the execution of al and intrigue, fighting and bloodshed, but it was also a time which laid the foundations of British parliamentary democracy.
The Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers
Author: Edward PeacockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Cavaliers and Roundheads; or, stories of the Great Civil War. With illustrations by A. Butts
Author: John George EDGARReprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
Author: John StubbsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393344134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
"Stubbs [has] a storyteller's gift for atmosphere and drama."--Wall Street Journal
Cavaliers and Roundheads, Or Stories of the Great Civil War
Author: John George EdgarAway Down South
Author: James C. CobbPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198025016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America. As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms. After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as their African American counterparts in the "Harlem Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the "Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned, the South confronted a new identity crisis brought on by global homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New South become the No South? Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship with provocative new insights into what the South means to southerners and to America as well.
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars
Author: John MillerPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472107624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The English Civil War is one of the most hotly contested areas of English History and John Miller is one of the experts on the period. Amid dramatic accounts of the key battles and confrontations, Miller explores what triggered the initial conflict between crown and parliament and how this was played out in England, Scotland and Ireland in the lead-up to war. As the war developed, personalities and innovations on the battlefield became increasingly important, culminating in the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the radical New Model Army. The wars changed the political, social, religious and intellectual landscape of the country for ever. Using a lifetime's knowledge and study on the period, John Miller brings this extraordinary turning point in British history to life.
The English Civil Wars
Author: Blair WordenPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297857592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Author: Aphra Behn