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The English Civil War and After, 1642-1658
University of California Press 1970; US$ 12.95In this volume seven distinguished British scholars present their current thinking on the complex issues of the Great Rebellion of the seventeenth century. Commissioned for presentation at Eton College, the essays offer a fresh distillation of important recent scholarship on the Civil War and its aftermath. more...
England's Troubles
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00Seventeenth-century English history is known best for 'the English Civil War' and 'the English Revolution'. This study analyses and explains both events, and others, by setting them in their wider contexts in relation to political instability, the history of religions and political ideas, and contemporary European events. more...
Lord Salisbury's World
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 55.00Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. But this important and accessible new study moves away from the conventional 'life' and reconstructs the thought-world of late-Victorian Conservatives for the first time, providing a new location within which Victorian politics and Salisbury himself can be evaluated. more...
The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. more...
Changing Conceptions of National Biography
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 15.00In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception. more...
The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 26.95In 1603 King James I ascended the throne to become the first King of a united England and Scotland. There followed a period of increasing religious and political discord, culminating in the English Civil War. The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 explores these complex events and the roles of the key personalities of the time - James I and VI, Charles... more...
George III
Manchester University Press 2002; US$ 74.95George III was a high-profile character in British history around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: did he seek to restore royal power or merely exercise his constitutional rights? This chronological survey covers the first ten years of his reign of power politics and policy-making. more...
Nineteenth-century Britain
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99An account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. The authors show the forces behind 19th-century Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the "union state". more...
Stuart Britain
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99This history of Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and cultural contexts. It gives an account of the effects of 100 years during which population was growing inexorably and faster than both the food supply and the employment market. more...
The Anglo-Saxon Age
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99This title covers the Anglo-Saxon period in English history, from the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. It offers a brief introduction to the political, social, religious and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. more...









