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English Civil War: Centuries
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This volume is aimed at anyone with an interest in the English Civil War of 1642-1660. It is a thorough analysis of both Royalist and Parlimentarian armies, with chapters detailing the development of their uniforms, weapons and equipment, from the first hastily raised units at Edgehill to the professional armies of Naseby and Dunbar. Looking beyond the popular image of Civil War soldiers as amateur warriors - dashing cavaliers and stern Roundheads - the author reveals a world of revolutionary combat in which both sides were led by professional officers who created armies that were a match for the best in Europe. The political struggle gave birth to Britain's first standing army and its first adventurers in imperialism. Not just about a civil war, the book ... covers the wars in Scotland and Ireland, as well as foreign expeditions to Flanders and the Caribbean, giving a full picture of the military revolution that took place in Britain in the middle of the 17th century.
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A period of tumultuous political and religious strife, the English Civil War has inspired writers for the past four centuries. Their works vary widely in quality from the hurriedly written political verse of the 17th century and the superficial or sentimental novels of the 19th and 20th centuries to the brilliantly conceived novels of Daniel Defoe, Nigel Tranter, and Iain Pears. All provide a perspective on a turbulent era. A useful tool for historians and researchers, this bibliography provides access to verse, novels, short stories, and plays about the Civil War era written between 1625 and 1999.
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This Civil War website offers detailed analysis of the personalities, events and battles of the Civil War era. It ... considers the century of 'tremors' which precipitated the upheaval, and explores the 'aftershocks' which continue to affect British and Irish politics to the present day.
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The Levellers and Diggers and other groups such as the Fifth Monarchy Men were peripheral concerns and none of them were really decisive during the Civil War. There ideals were actually more important in the early nineteenth century since they animated socialist doctrine concerning private property. But they did express the democratic aspirations of Puritanism and kept alive the idea of religious toleration.
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Throughout the greater part of the 20th century, two schools of thought dominated theoretical explanations of the Civil War: the "Whigs" and the Marxists. Both of them explained the English seventeenth century in terms of long-term trends.
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