Product Description: This study brings a new perspective to a pivotal debate: the causes of the English Revolution. It pinpoints the economic motives behind the opposition to the crown, and shows their connection to the changing mind-set and political transitions of the time...read more

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This book is intended as a guide and introduction to recent scholarship on the causes of the English civil war. It examines English developments in a broader British and European context, and explores current debates on the nature of the political process and the divisions over religion and politics. It then analyses renewed attempts to set the civil war in a social context, and to connect social change to broad cultural cleavages in England. The author also provides her own positive interpretation which takes account of the valuable insights of revisionist approaches, but concludes that long term ideological divisions and tensions arising from social change were crucial in causing the civil war. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This study covers the causes and the outbreak of the Civil War upto 1642 and concentrates upon the role of parliament, religion, the "British Problem", Charles I and the growing political consciousness during this period. It then goes on to explain the course and consequences of the war between 1642 and 1649, the reasons for parliament's victory and the origins of the radicalism that led to the revolution of 1649...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides historical and background information on each of the eight states, detailed touring plans, and information on hotels, restaurants, museums, parks, historic sites, and other points of interest