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The Oxford Handbook of T H E E N G L I S H R E VO LU T I O N The Oxford Handbook of THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION Edited by MICHAEL J. BRADDICK 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2015 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 2015 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2015930593 ISBN 978–0–19–969589–8 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, cr0 4yy Cover image: Map of the British Isles with battle ships in the North Sea, and a view of Prague and the Battle of the White Mountain of 1620, comparing the English and Bohemian Civil Wars. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar c. 1659 © The Trustees of the British Museum Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Civil War and Revolution in England, Scotland, and Ireland 3 Michael J. Braddick 2. Post-Reformation Politics, or on Not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War 21 Peter Lake PART II EVENTS 3. The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637–1644 43 Julian Goodare 4. The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637–1642 60 Richard Cust 5. The Irish Rising 77 Joseph Cope 6. War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642–1646 96 Michael J. Braddick 7. Scottish Politics, 1644–1651 114 Laura A. M. Stewart 8. The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643–1649 137 Micheál Ó Siochrú 9. The Regicide 154 Philip Baker vi Contents 10. Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649–1658 170 Derek Hirst 11. English Politics in the 1650s 186 David L. Smith 12. The Restoration in Britain and Ireland 204 Tim Harris PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS 13. Oliver Cromwell 223 J. C. Davis 14. Parliaments and Constitutions 243 David L. Smith 15. The Armies 260 Andrew Hopper 16. The Revolution in Print 276 Jason Peacey 17. State and Society in the English Revolution 294 Stephen K. Roberts 18. Urban Citizens and England’s Civil Wars 312 Phil Withington 19. Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution 330 John Walter 20. ‘Gender Trouble’: Women’s Agency and Gender Relations in the English Revolution 347 Ann Hughes 21. State, Politics, and Society in Scotland, 1637–1660 363 R. Scott Spurlock 22. State, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1641–1662 379 Toby Barnard Contents vii PART IV PARTIES, IDEAS, AND PEOPLE 23. The Persistence of Royalism 397 Alan Cromartie 24. Varieties of Parliamentarianism 414 Rachel Foxley 25. Political Thought 430 Ted Vallance 26. Religious Thought 447 John Coffey 27. ‘May you Live in Interesting Times’: The Literature of Civil War, Revolution, and Restoration 466 Steven N. Zwicker 28. The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution, and Restoration 483 Timothy Wilks PART V WIDER PERSPECTIVES 29. The Long-term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development 501 John Miller 30. The Long-term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology 518 Mark Knights 31. Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art 535 Laura Lunger Knoppers 32. The English Revolution in British and Irish Context 555 John Morrill 33. Kingdom Divided: The British and Continental European Conflicts Compared 577 Peter H. Wilson Index 597
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