Why Was Charles I Executed? (1st edition hardback in fine dust jacket)

Clive Holmes

ISBN 10: 1852852828 / ISBN 13: 9781852852825

Edité par Hambledon Continuum, 2006

Published by Hambledon Continuum in 2006, here is the relatively scarce first hardback printing of Clive Holmes' Why Was Charles I Executed? Black cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, 244 pages, illustrations the book is in very good condition. The dust jacket is also very good with some creasing/chipping to the top edge. N° de réf. du vendeur 11792

Synopsis :

The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary political event. It followed a bitter Civil War between parliament and the king, and their total failure to negotiate a subsequent peace settlement.

Why the king was defeated and executed has been a central question in English history, being traced back to the Reformation and forward to the triumph of parliament in the eighteenth century. The old answers, whether those of the Victorian narrative historian S.R. Gardiner or of Lawrence Stone's diagnosis of a fatal long-term rift in English society, however, no longer satisfy, while the newer ones of local historians and revisionists' often leave readers unclear as to why the Civil War happened at all.

In Why Was Charles I Executed? Clive Holmes supplies clear answers to eight key questions about the period, ranging from why the king had to summon the Long Parliament to whether there was in fact an English Revolution.

À propos de l?auteur:

Clive Holmes is a leading English Civil War Historian and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Why Was Charles I Executed? (1st edition ...
Éditeur : Hambledon Continuum
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good
Edition : 1st Edition