1st Edition
The Civil Wars Experienced Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661
By Martyn Bennett
Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the 'common people'. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and political and social upheaval By looking at personal sources such as diaries, petitions, letters and social sources including the press, The Civil War Experienced clearly sets out the true social and... Read more
1 The Aberdeen doctors and history 2 Under occupation: the North of England, 1640–8 3 Experiencing rebellion in Ireland, 1641–9 4 The Scottish experience of the wars in the four nations, 1638–48 5 Experiencing war in Wales and England 6 The revolutionary period, 1648–53 7 Conquered nations: Republican and Restoration Scotland and Ireland, 1653–61 8 Republic and Restoration in England and Wales, 1653–61
Biography
Martyn Bennett is Reader in History at Nottingham Trent University.
'Undoubtedly Martin Bennett provides some important new perspectives on the conflict the twelve pages of bibliography listing manuscript collections and printed primary sources reveals many unused or at least under-exploited sources Bennett goes a great distance towards bringing these to light his is indeed an important book.' - Journal of Military History
'This well-researched study...throws new light upon the ways in which the wars of the mid-seventeenth century impacted upon a range of urban and rural communities.' - Peter Gaunt, Urban History March 2003
