The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

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This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms--England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Civil War and Revolution in England, Scotland, and Ireland 2. Post-Reformation Politics, or on Not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War PART II EVENTS 3. The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637–1644 4. The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637–1642 5. The Irish Rising 6. War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642–1646 7. Scottish Politics, 1644–1651 8. The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643–1649 9. The Regicide 10. Security and Reform in England’s Other Nations, 1649–1658 11. English Politics in the 1650s 12. The Restoration in Britain and Ireland PART III INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS 13. Oliver Cromwell 14. Parliaments and Constitutions 15. The Armies 16. The Revolution in Print 17. State and Society in the English Revolution 18. Urban Citizens and England’s Civil Wars 19. Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution 20. ‘Gender Trouble’: Women’s Agency and Gender Relations in the English Revolution 21. State, Politics, and Society in Scotland, 1637–1660 22. State, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1641–1662 PART IV PARTIES, IDEAS, AND PEOPLE 23. The Persistence of Royalism 24. Varieties of Parliamentarianism 25. Political Thought 26. Religious Thought 27. ‘May you Live in Interesting Times’: The Literature of Civil War, Revolution, and Restoration 28. The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution, and Restoration PART V WIDER PERSPECTIVES 29. The Long-term Consequences of the English Revolution 30. The Long-term Consequences of the English Revolution 31. Cultural Legacies 32. The English Revolution in British and Irish Context 33. Kingdom Divided Index