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Book SynopsisOliver Cromwell ranks as one of the most hotly debated figures in the whole of English history. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman and the conflicting images are the subject of this book. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: Roger Howell, Jr, and Oliver Cromwell
1. Appreciations and reminiscences of Roger Howell, Jr
2. Images of Oliver Cromwell - Roger Howell, Jr
3. ‘That imp of Satan’: the Restoration image of Cromwell – Roger Howell, Jr
4. Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution – W. A. Speck
5. Cromwell, the English Revolution and political symbolism in eighteenth-century England – Roger Howell, Jr
6. Carlyle’s Cromwell – Ivan Roots
7. ‘Who needs another Cromwell?’ The nineteenth-century image of Oliver Cromwell – Roger Howell, Jr
8. Cromwell and the inter-war European dictators – R. C. Richardson
9. Cromwell and his parliaments: the Trevor-Roper thesis revisited – Roger Howell, Jr
10. Cromwell’s personality: the problems and promises of a psychohistorical approach – Roger Howell, Jr
11. Cromwell and English liberty – Roger Howell, Jr
12. Irish images of Cromwell – Toby Barnard
13. Cromwell in America – Peter Karsten
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