The Stuart age - Barry Coward

This classic text has sold over 50,000 copies since first published, and it has been widely hailed as the best of its kind on the period. It has been an OU Set text for 5 years.This second edition reassesses the social, economic and intellectual dimensions of the age as well as it politics and religion. A new Timeline appendix provides the chronology and facts leaving the text clear to introduce the various interpretative problems of the period and allowing the reader to take part in the debate themselves. The Stuart Age is at the centre of the most lively and exciting debates of any period in British history. A flood of new research on seventeenth century England, and especially the interco-nnections between England and the rest of Britain has required the reinterpretation of many of its major aspects. In an extensively revised second edition of this seminal work Barry Coward reconsiders these key themes:? the causes of the English Civil War? the nature of the English Revolution? the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell? the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England? the impact on Britain of the Glorious revolutionThe authorBarry Coward is Reader;His other books include The Stanleys, Lord Stanley and the Earls of Derby 1385 - 1672 (1983), Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England 1550 - 1750 (1988, revised ed. 1997) and Oliver Cromwell (1991) which has also been published in Russian and Portuguese editions. He has just become President of the Cromwell Association.Back flap:(275 years of publishing history logo - from Louise Corless)As part of Longman's 275th Anniversary - a landmark in publishing history - we are launching an exciting collection of classic books.The Silver Library celebrates the very best in history writing published by Longman. This selection of seminal and best-selling works by world renowned authorities will become the essential collection.Titles in the Silver Library are:John ToshThe Pursuit of History, Third EditionBernard W AndersonThe Living World of the Old Testament, Fourth EditionR H C DavisA History of Medieval Europe, Second EditionH G Koenigsberger, George L Mosse, G Q BowlerEurope in the Sixteenth Century, Second EditionBarry CowardThe Stuart Age 1603 - 1714, Second EditionH G KoenigsbergerEarly Modern Europe 1500 - 1789Asa BriggsThe Age of Improvement 1783 - 1867, Second EditionM S