Screen LibraryWar in England, 1642-1649
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 443 p., [21] p. of plates: ill., maps, music ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199285181 (acid-free paper) 0199285187 (acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | K561 |
| CLC: | K561.41 |
| Call Number: | K561.41/D674 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [404]-431) and index. Introduction: '[T]his insanum bellum, this mad warre' -- Before the war -- God's wars -- Man's wars -- Military educations -- The texture of war: the soldier's world -- An integrated war -- The means of violence -- Knowledge and confusion -- Slay in love: the moral and judicial economy of civil war -- War and civil war -- Soldiers' law -- Theory and practice -- Outside the law? -- The protagonists -- Armies -- Officers -- Men -- Case histories: two sieges -- Boarstall House 1645-1646 -- Colchester 1648: 'The mournfull city' -- Colchesters teares: fire, hunger, and atrocity -- Reciprocity, negotiation, and surrender -- Colchester: the aftermath. The book deals even-handedly with royalists and parliamentarians, examining how much they had in common, as well as discussing the points on which they differed. It looks at the intimacy of this often uncivil war, in which enemies fought at close quarters, spoke the same language and had often been acquainted before the war began, just as they had often known the civilians who suffered their presence. A final section on two sieges illustrates these themes in practice over extended periods, and also demonstrates the integration of military and civilian experience in a civil war. --from publisher description. |