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Format:
Paperback
112 pp.
10 halftones, 1 map, 111 mm x 174 mm

ISBN-13:
9780192854001

Publication date:
August 2000

Imprint: OUP UK

Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction

John Morrill

Series : Very Short Introductions

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.

Readership : The general reader or students of the Stuart period of British history.

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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John Morrill has been Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge since 1998. He has also been a Fellow since 1975 and Vice master since 1994 of Selwyn College, Cambridge. His publications include The Nature of the English Revolution (1994), The British Problem 1534-1707 (1996), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain (1996), and Revolt in the Provinces (1998). He is also General Editor of The History of Britain, Ireland and the British Overseas on CD-ROM.

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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