{"product_id":"the-stuart-age-9781138944176","title":"The Stuart Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England''s century of civil war and revolution, including 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; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. \u003ci\u003eThe Stuart Age \u003c\/i\u003eis a long-standing favourite of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stuart Age\u003c\/em\u003e enjoys a hard won reputation as one of the best introductions to the 'British Isles' during an era of civil war and revolution. This updated edition, containing much that is new, makes the volume still more indispensable to students and teachers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late Barry Coward’s \u003cem\u003eThe Stuart Age\u003c\/em\u003e, 1603-1714 has long been regarded as the best single-volume introduction to the history of seventeenth-century England. This revised fifth edition elegantly updates Coward’s work for the post-Cameron generation. The book is prefaced with an excellent new introduction by Peter Gaunt, which surveys the dizzying quantity of new writing on the subject which has appeared since the fourth edition was published, in 2012, and incisively summarises the current state of the field. Gaunt’s deep knowledge of all aspects of seventeenth-century English life makes him the ideal scholar to refresh and rejuvenate Coward’s original text - and his work has ensured that, in its latest incarnation, \u003cem\u003eThe Stuart Age\u003c\/em\u003e will continue to be required reading for all who teach and study this most fascinating of historical periods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Stoyle, University of Southampton, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 1 Early Stuart England, 1603 –1640 1\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe economy of early Stuart England 5\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe population and the economy \u003c\/em\u003e5\u003cem\u003eThe optimistic case \u003c\/em\u003e7\u003cem\u003eThe pessimistic case \u003c\/em\u003e10\u003cem\u003eConclusion \u003c\/em\u003e16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e2 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSociety in early Stuart England 18\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe achievements of social historians writing in the 1970s and 1980s \u003c\/em\u003e19\u003cem\u003eFrom the 1990s onwards: social history with the politics put back \u003c\/em\u003e35\u003cem\u003eIntellectual developments and popular beliefs \u003c\/em\u003e38\u003cem\u003eConclusion \u003c\/em\u003e58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e3 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elizabethan constitution 62\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe framework of government \u003c\/em\u003e63\u003cem\u003eStresses within the Elizabethan constitution: political and religious divisions and ‘the public sphere’ \u003c\/em\u003e77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 2 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reigns of the early Stuarts, 1603 –1640 87\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 89\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e4 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe survival of the Elizabethan constitution, 1603 –1621 93\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJames I and the succession \u003c\/em\u003e94\u003cem\u003ePeace with Spain and the settlement in Ireland \u003c\/em\u003e99\u003cem\u003ePuritans and Catholics \u003c\/em\u003e103\u003cem\u003eJames’s first parliament, 1604 –1610 \u003c\/em\u003e110\u003cem\u003eRule without parliament, 1610 –1621 \u003c\/em\u003e121\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e5 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe breakdown of the Elizabethan constitution, 1621–1640 129\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1621–1624: the emergence of conflicting conspiracy theories \u003c\/em\u003e131\u003cem\u003eThe prerogative ‘extended . . . beyond its just symmetry’, 1625 –1629 \u003c\/em\u003e137\u003cem\u003eThe Personal Rule, 1629 –1640 \u003c\/em\u003e146\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 3 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Revolution, 1640 –1660 165\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 167\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e6 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe making of the English Revolution, 1640 –1649 169\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe constitutional crisis, November 1640 –September 1641 \u003c\/em\u003e170\u003cem\u003eThe crisis becomes a civil war, September 1641–July 1642 \u003c\/em\u003e182\u003cem\u003eThe first civil war, 1642–1646 \u003c\/em\u003e191\u003cem\u003eThe search for a settlement: king, parliament, the army and the Scots, 1645 –1649 \u003c\/em\u003e215\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e7 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe search for a new settlement, 1649 –1660 233\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe search for a ‘godly reformation’ \u003c\/em\u003e234\u003cem\u003eThe Rump Parliament, 1649 –1653 \u003c\/em\u003e242\u003cem\u003eBarebones Parliament, July–December 1653 \u003c\/em\u003e254\u003cem\u003eOliver Cromwell \u003c\/em\u003e257\u003cem\u003eCromwellian government, 1653 –1658 \u003c\/em\u003e265\u003cem\u003eThe end of the Good Old Cause, 1658 –1660 \u003c\/em\u003e281\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 4 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reigns of Charles II and James II, 1660 –1688 285\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 287\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e8 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe failure of ‘the Restoration Settlement’, 1660 –1667 291\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Convention Parliament, 1660: old wounds reopened and old problems unsolved \u003c\/em\u003e291\u003cem\u003eThe Cavalier Parliament and the restored monarchy, 1661–1664 \u003c\/em\u003e296\u003cem\u003eThe Cavalier Parliament and the restored Church, 1661–1664 \u003c\/em\u003e299\u003cem\u003eThe second Dutch war and the downfall of Clarendon, 1664 –1667 \u003c\/em\u003e305\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e9 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Catholic’ or ‘Cavalier’ policies, 1668 –1674 311\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e10 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnti-Catholicism and exclusion, 1674 –1681 321\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnti-Catholicism \u003c\/em\u003e321\u003cem\u003eDanby, 1674 –1678 \u003c\/em\u003e325\u003cem\u003eThe Popish Plot \u003c\/em\u003e333\u003cem\u003eThe Exclusion Crisis, May 1679 –March 1681 \u003c\/em\u003e337\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e11 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe trend towards absolutism, 1681–1688 343\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe strengthening of royal authority, 1681–1685 \u003c\/em\u003e344\u003cem\u003eJames II and Protestant unity, February 1685 –June 1688 \u003c\/em\u003e347\u003cem\u003eThe intervention of William of Orange, 1688 \u003c\/em\u003e354\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 5 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reigns of William III and Queen Anne, 1689 –1714 357\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction 359\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e12 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reign of William III, 1689 –1702 363\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitics in the reign of William III \u003c\/em\u003e363\u003cem\u003eThe Glorious Revolution, 1689 –1690 \u003c\/em\u003e367\u003cem\u003eA country at war, 1690 –1697 \u003c\/em\u003e378\u003cem\u003ePeace and politics: the collapse of the Junto, 1697–1701 \u003c\/em\u003e397\u003cem\u003eParty issues redefi ned, 1701–1702 \u003c\/em\u003e403\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e13 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1714 409\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitics in the reign of Queen Anne \u003c\/em\u003e409\u003cem\u003eThe failure of the ‘managers’, 1702–1708 \u003c\/em\u003e416\u003cem\u003eThe failure of the Whigs and Tories, 1708 –1714 \u003c\/em\u003e440\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePART 6 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eLater Stuart England: change and continuity 463\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e14 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eChange 465\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe long-term effects of the Glorious Revolution: war and constitutional changes \u003c\/em\u003e465\u003cem\u003eReligious and intellectual changes \u003c\/em\u003e474\u003cem\u003eEconomic and social changes \u003c\/em\u003e486\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e15 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eContinuity: 1714 – the end of the Middle Ages? 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