Name: Access to History: The Early Stuarts and the English Revolution, 1603–60, Second Edition
Price: 35.99 USD
ISBN: 9781510459717

Hodder Education

Katherine Brice, Michael Lynch

Access to History: The Early Stuarts and the English Revolution, 1603–60, Second Edition

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Exam board: AQA; OCR
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)

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> Achieve exam success: Practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams

> Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: Students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

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English

ISBN

9781510459717

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Title Page

Contents

Introduction: about this book

Dedication

CHAPTER 1 Context: The kingdoms of Britain in 1603

1 English society in 1603

2 The political system in England

3 Scotland and Ireland

4 Implications of the accession of James I

CHAPTER 2 James I: consensus under strain 1603–25

1 The new king of England

2 Problems with the financial system in the early seventeenth century

3 Religion

4 Foreign policy

5 Relations with Parliament

6 Key debate: Wise or foolish: which is the more accurate description of James I?

Question practice

CHAPTER 3 The reign of Charles I: 1625–38

1 Charles became king

2 Foreign policy in the 1620s

3 The rise of Arminianism 1625–30

4 Relations with Parliament 1625–9

5 The Personal Rule 1629–40: economic policy

6 The Personal Rule 1629–40: religious policy

Question practice

CHAPTER 4 The collapse of the Personal Rule and the approach of civil war 1638–42

1 The end of the Personal Rule

2 Attacks on Charles’s government

3 The emergence of a royalist party

4 The move towards civil war

5 Key debate: How have historians interpreted the causes of the English civil war?

Question practice

CHAPTER 5 The civil wars and their aftermath 1642–9

1 The first civil war 1642–6

2 Analysing the first civil war

3 The failure to reach a settlement 1646–9

4 The trial and execution of the king 1649

5 The growth of political radicalism: the Levellers

Question practice

CHAPTER 6 The Commonwealth 1649–53: an experiment in republicanism

1 The Rump and the establishment of the Commonwealth

2 The radical sects

3 The third civil war 1649–52: Cromwell in Ireland and Scotland

4 The achievements of the Rump

5 The dissolution of the Rump, April 1653

6 Key debate: How repressive was Cromwell’s military policy in Ireland?

Question practice

CHAPTER 7 The search for a settlement 1653–8

1 The Nominated Assembly 1653

2 The early Protectorate 1654–5

3 Cromwell and the sects

4 Royalist resistance 1652–9

5 The Major-Generals 1655–7

6 The later Protectorate 1656–8

Question practice

CHAPTER 8 From Protectorate to Restoration 1658–60

1 Richard Cromwell’s Protectorate, September 1658 to April 1659

2 The restored Commonwealth, May to December 1659

3 The path to the Restoration, December 1659 to May 1660

4 Reasons for the failure of the republic by 1660

5 Key debate: What was the legacy of the English Revolution of 1640–60?

Question practice

Exam focus: AQA

Exam focus: OCR

Timeline

Glossary of terms