A major undertaking in its own right, this Second Edition of The Stuart Age (revised throughout, and reset in a more generous format) is fully worthy of the immensely successful First Edition. It provides clear and accessible interpretations of the many changes that took place in these crowded years -- still the centre of the most lively and intellectually exciting debates of any period of British history -- but its aim is not to persuade readers to accept these interpretations uncritically, but to help them take part in the ongoing debate themselves.

The Stuart Age: England 1603-1714

History

Coward, Barry

Europe

Longman

Social Change and Continuity: England 1550-1750 (Seminar Studies)

Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation and population expansion in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Overall he stresses that social change combined with social continuity to produce a distinctive early modern English society.

Social Change and Continuity (Seminar Studies)

Routledge

This volume is part of the "Seminar Studies in History" series which aims to provide concise analyses of complex issues and problems in important A level modern history topics. They use supporting documents designed to give students a clear account of historical facts and an understanding of the central themes and differing interpretations. The present book attempts to provide a survey of the social history of early modern England 1590-1720, drawing on recent work concerning the nature of, and the changes in, English society during that period. The author traces the developments of the new approach to and redefinition of social history and then considers the structure of early modern English society. Fundamental changes during the period, such as changes in the material conditions of people and in the structure of society, and changes in people's beliefs and modes of thought, are treated separately. The work concludes with a view of English society of the early 18th century as one which was already modern in some of its features and which had already broken out of its medieval mould. Documents from a wide range of sources are used, including the works of contemporary commentators and travellers, their diaries and letters, official records and contemporary plays and poems.

Social Change and Continuity in Early Modern England Fifteen-Fifty Seventeen-Fifty (Seminar Studies in History)

Longman Pub. Group

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse the life of Oliver Cromwell as a political figure and look at the historical problems associated with his exercise of power.

Oliver Cromwell: PROFILES IN POWER

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Stuart Age: A History of England 1603-1714 (Longman Paperback)

Longman Publishing Group

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. This second edition reassesses the social, economic and intellectual dimensions of the age as well as it politics and religion. 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: A * the causes of the English Civil War A * the nature of the English Revolution A * the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell A * the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England A * the impact on Britain of the Glorious revolution

The Stuart Age: A History of England 1603-1714

Many historical problems connected with Cromwell's political career still await satisfactory explanation. In this important contribution to a distinguished series, Barry Coward (author of Longman's hugely successful survey of "The Stuart Age") uses the words and writings of Cromwell and his contemporaries, and the wealth of recent scholarship on the period, to provide a fresh account of Cromwell's extraordinary career, and a new understanding of his enigmatic and contradictory personality. The clear, attractive narrative will commend the book to non-specialists, while Dr Coward's penetrating analysis will be necessary reading for serious students of the seventeenth century.

Oliver Cromwell (Profiles in Power)

Americas

Occupying the top spot on most undergraduate reading lists for this period, and widely used by teachers and students on A-level courses on early modern British history, The Stuart Age is the definitive history of England¿s century of civil war and revolution.
This new edition clarifies and makes sense of recent historiographical trends over the last decade. In a substantial new introduction to the volume, Barry Coward provides an important assessment of the impact of new revisionist approaches on historical writing about the Stuart age.

The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714

Pearson

The Stanleys, Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby, 1385-1672: The Origins, Wealth, and Power of a Landowning Family (Remains Historical and Literary ... of Lancaster and Chester, 3rd Ser., V. 30)

Manchester Univ Pr

Examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. One of the few stuides to view the period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactionary regime. Examines the aspirations of the Cromwellian Protectorate and underlines their committemnt to a radical vision, despite the pressures and crises that the regime faced. Examines the international dimension of the rules of Oliver and Richard Cromwell. Containing many key documents of the period and a bibliographical essay, considers A and AS level requirements as well as being valuable to undergraduates and general readers.

The Cromwellian Protectorate

Manchester University Press

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