Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often—and most bloodily—against each other. The almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and one-half centuries between Bosworth and Culloden decimated lives, but created the British state and forged the nation as the world's predominant power. In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death. Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries—camaraderie, courage, fear, and grief—to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples.

This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

History

Carlton, Charles

Europe

Yale University Press

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often—and most bloodily—against each other. The almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and one-half centuries between Bosworth and Culloden decimated lives, but created the British state and forged the nation as the world's predominant power. 
In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death. Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries—camaraderie, courage, fear, and grief—to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples.

An innovative look at the illicit sexual relations amongst members of the British royalty investigating the relationship between sex and power. This book should be of interest to wide general readership, as well as students of social history.

Royal Mistresses

Americas

Routledge

In the 1640s, thousands of young men in the British Isles set off to fight in the civil wars, full of enthusiasm and commitment to the cause. They were soon to be disillusioned. Accustomed to a relatively peaceful and secure way of life, the realities of battle - the mental strain, physical exhaustion, loneliness and violence - were devestating. In "Going to the Wars", Charles Carlton studies the British civil wars from the perspective of those who fought them, to argue that the event described by G.M. Trevelyan as the most important happening in our history, was also the most destructive.

Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651

Charles I: Personal Monarch

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Charles Carlton looks in detail at how childhood conditions the performance of British kings and queens from William the Conqueror to the present Prince of Wales. This book should be of general interest as well as for readers of history and biography.

Royal childhoods

Routledge & K.Paul

Carlton puts Laud in the context of his times, showing how closely his personal life was woven into his political and religious career.

Archbishop William Laud

Religion & Spirituality

Charles Carlton's biography of the `monarch of the Civil Wars' was praised for its distinctive psychological portrait of Charles I when it was first published in 1983. Challenging conventional interpretations of the king, as well as questioning orthodox historical assumptions concerning the origins and development of the Civil Wars, the book quickly established itself as the definitive biography.  In the eleven years since Charles I: The Personal Monarch was published an immense amount of new material on the king and his reign have emerged and yet no new biography has been written.  Professor Carlton's second edition includes a substantial new preface which takes account of the new work. Addressing and analysing the furious historiographical debates which have surrounded the period, Carlton offers a fresh and lucid perspective.  The text and bibliography have been thoroughly updated.

Charles I: The Personal Monarch

Bigotry and Blood: Documents on the Ulster Troubles

Primary-source materials shed light on the historical origins of the violence in Northern Ireland and present the viewpoints of an IRA representative, a British soldier, and other parties involved in the current conflict

Burnham Inc Pub.

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This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Royal Mistresses

Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651

Charles I: Personal Monarch

Royal childhoods

Archbishop William Laud

Charles I: The Personal Monarch

Bigotry and Blood: Documents on the Ulster Troubles

Bigotry and Blood: Documents on the Ulster Troubles