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.
- ISBN10 0312217080
- ISBN13 9780312217082
- Publish Date 15 December 1998 (first published 1 January 1991)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Springer
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English