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Book
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Author
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 Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
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Title
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The English Civil War : Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain / Diane Purkiss.
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Publisher
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New York : Basic Books, c2006.
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Physical Descrip.
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xxiii, 627 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
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Note(s)
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Originally published as: The English Civil War: a people’s history. London : Harpep Press, 2006.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-601) and index.
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Contents
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The last cavalier? -- The meek-eyed peace -- Two women: Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hay -- The bishops’ wars, the three kingdoms, and montrose -- Pym against the Papists -- Stand up, shout Mars -- The valley of decision -- Bright-harnessed angels: edgehill -- Down with bishops and bells: iconoclasm -- The death of dreams -- The war over Christmas -- The queen’s tale: Henrietta Maria -- Newbury fight -- Two capitals: Oxford and London -- The bitterness of war -- Two marriages -- The power of heaven: Marston Moor and Cromwell -- The cookery writers’ tales: General Hunger, Hannah Wolley, Kenelm Digby and the Deer of Corse Lawn -- Twenty thousand Cornish boys: the Battle of Lostwithiel -- The nation’s nightmares -- Th’ easy earth that covers her: the children’s tales -- God with us! Montrose’s campaign -- New professions: Parliament Joan and Richard Wiseman -- The world is turned upside down: the new model army and Naseby fight -- Ashes: the siege of Taunton and the clubmen -- The birds in the Greenwoods are mated together: Anne Halkett and the escape of James II -- Nor iron bars a cage: the capture of Charles I -- A new heaven and a new earth: Anna Trapnel and the Levellers -- Stand up now, stand up now: Gerrard Winstanley and the diggers -- The second civil war -- To Carisbrooke’s narrow case: Charles I in captivity -- Oh, he is gone, and now hath left us here: the trial and execution of Charles I -- Into another mould? The aftermath.
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Subject(s)
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1649.
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ISBN
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0465067565
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Owned By
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AC Frost Library
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Owned By
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MH Main Library
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SC Neilson Library
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UM Du Bois Library
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