Causes of the English Civil War / Edition 1

by Conrad Russell

Overview

Professor Russell highlights the constitutional problem of multiple kingdoms within Britain, the religious problem of competing theologies within two or three state churches, and the financial problem of the inadequacy of royal revenue to meet the needs of the monarchy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900198221417
Publication date:	12/27/1990
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.38(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

King's College, London

Editorial Reviews

"Essential reading for scholars and undergraduates."—History: Reviews of New Books

"Driven by a powerful central theme and illuminated by flashes of brilliance."—American Historical Review

"This is a wonderful set of lectures. It is quite the best thing I know on the vexed problems of causes, and presents Lord Russell in a new and most impressive guise."—J.H.M. Salmon, Bryn Mawr College

"The work's indispensability and profound scholarship cannot be denied."—CHOICE

"Russell succeeds in a tour de force of accessible scholarship....Russell's vision of the civil war will henceforth be our ruling orthodoxy. His is a remarkable achievement."—The Times (London)

"Conrad Russell's brilliant new book..."—Albion

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