Patrick Little

Oliver Cromwell (eBook, ePUB)

New Perspectives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Little integrates the latest research from younger and established scholars to provide a new evaluation and 'biography' of Cromwell. The book challenges received wisdom about Cromwell's rise to power, his political and religious beliefs, his relationship with various communities across the British Isles and his role as Lord Protector.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350306936
• Artikelnr.: 62729778

Autorenporträt

PATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Officer at the History of Parliament Trust, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1636: The Unmaking of Oliver Cromwell?; S.Healy
'One That Would Sit Well At the Mark: The Early Parliamentary Career of
Oliver Cromwell; S.K.Roberts
'Lord of the Fens': Oliver Cromwell's Reputation and the First Civil War;
S.L.Sadler
'A Despicable Contemptible Generation of Men'?: Cromwell and The Levellers;
P.Baker
Cromwell in Ireland Before 1649; P.Little
Oliver Cromwell and the Solemn Leagueand Covenant of the Three Kingdoms;
K.MacKenzie
Oliver Cromwell (alias William) and Wales; L.Bowen
The Lord Protector's Servants and Courtiers; A.Barclay
John Thurloe and the Offer of the Crown to Cromwell; P.Little
'Fit for Public Services'; The Upbringing of Richard Cromwell; J.Peacey
Index.