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Re-evaluation of the origins of the English Civil War. Traces the fortunes of the small group of noblemen who challenged the king's attempts to create an authoritarian monarchy in the Stuart kingdoms in the 1630s.
Synopsis
A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the 1640s.