England Without a King 1649-60

Austin Woolrych (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

62 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-16332-4 (ISBN)

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The focus of this book is the period in which the country lost its king and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. This is used to examine the Commonwealth and the Protectorate where Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on these areas.

Professor Woolrych surveys the establishment and history if the Commonwealth and Protectorate, first explaining how the country lost its king, and how Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector. Professor Woolrych challenges accepted views on the nature of the Protectorate, and finally offers some guidelines to the tangled period between Cromwell's death and the Restoration.

Austin Woolrych

Chapter 1 Stages on the road to a scaffold; Chapter 2 England’s new masters; Chapter 3 The defeat of radical hopes; Chapter 4 The army against the Rump; Chapter 5 Barebone’s Parliament; Chapter 6 The Protectorate established; Chapter 7 Cromwell and the nation; Chapter 8 A new constitution; Chapter 9 Richard Cromwell’s Protectorate; Chapter 10 The restored Commonwealth and its collapse;

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Lancaster Pamphlets
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-16332-5 / 1138163325
ISBN-13	978-1-138-16332-4 / 9781138163324
Zustand	Neuware