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Indlæser... The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660af Blair Worden
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A lot of people from other countries are surprised that most people my age in the UK know little about certain periods of our history. For me one of there periods centres around the wars between the Crown and characters like Oliver Cromwell. I picked to this book as a introduction to this subject with the hope that it would provide an easy to read overview. It does provide an overview but not necessarily an easy read. However, my biggest gripe is that you will need to have previous knowledge of most of the people and the different religious groups involved to get the most out of this. Solid introduction to the insanity of the twenty years of the English Civil Wars/Interregnum/Revolution - historians can't agree on what to call this period - as constitutional and religious differences caused Parliament to turn on the King and then on itself. Along the way Christmas was suppressed, theatre banned and bishops were abolished. I always knew this was a bloody period of history, but Worden estimates that proportionately more of the population was killed during this conflict than died in WWI. Oh yes and they don't call the period that immediately followed this the Restoration for nothing. Fascinating. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations. No library descriptions found. |
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To be honest, it is too brief, and it's really difficult to see what the point of writing such a small book describing twenty years of tumultuous history might be. There's hardly any detail of the major events; mostly it is about the political and social context for these events. About the only thing that I found informative in this book was Worden's description of the battles for religious supremacy that accompanied the struggle for temporal power during that period.
For people with a real interest in the Civil War, I would recommend reading one of the countless works that deal with them in detail, and I can't really see why anybody else would want to read this at all. ( )