The Nature of the English Revolution

Cover......Page 0
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
1. The Nature of the English Revolution......Page 11
Part One: England's Wars of Religion......Page 41
2. Introduction: England's Wars of Religion......Page 43
3. The Religious Context of the English Civil War......Page 55
4. The Attack on the Church of England in the Long Parliament......Page 79
5. The Scottish National Covenant of 1638 in its British Context......Page 101
6. The Making of Oliver Cromwell......Page 128
7. The Church in England 1642-1649......Page 158
Part Two: Problems of Allegiance......Page 187
8. Introduction: County Communities and the Problem of Allegiance in the English Civil War......Page 189
9. The Northern Gentry and the Great Rebellion......Page 201
10. Provincial Squires and 'Middling Sorts' in the Great Rebellion......Page 224
11. The Ecology of Allegiance in the English Civil Wars......Page 234
Part Three: The Nature and Consequences of the English Revolution......Page 253
12. Introduction: Britain's Revolutions......Page 255
13. The Causes of Britain's Civil Wars......Page 262
14. Christopher Hill's Revolution......Page 283
15. Charles I, Tyranny and the English Civil War......Page 295
16. The Army Revolt of 1647......Page 317
17. Mutiny and Discontent in English Provincial Armies, 1645-1647......Page 342
18. Order and Disorder in the English Revolution......Page 369
19. A Glorious Resolution?......Page 402
20. The Sensible Revolution, 1688......Page 429
Major Publications by John Morrill, 1967-1992......Page 464
Index......Page 467