Oxford AQA History: A Level and AS Component 2: The English Revolution 1625-1660
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Language
English
ISBN
9780198363835
Contents
Introduction to features
AQA History specification overview
Introduction to the Oxford AQA History series
Timeline
Introduction to this book
PART ONE: AS AND A LEVEL: THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 1625–1642
SECTION 1: The emergence of conflict and the end of consensus, 1625–1629
1 The Legacy of James I
James I’s management of religious issues and divisions
Relations between Crown and Parliament
Relations with foreign powers
Summary
5 Charles I’s Personal Rule
Charles I’s chief ministers
Methods of government
Financial policies and reactions
Summary
9 The Political Nation, 1640
The recall of Parliament
The strengths and weaknesses of Charles I
The strengths and divisions of Parliamentary opposition
Sources of division
Summary
2 Monarchy and Divine Right
The character and aims of Charles I
The queen and the court
The king’s advisers
Ideas of royal authority
Summary
3 Challenges to the arbitrary government of Charles I
Reactions against financial policies
Reasons for and outcomes of conflict over the Church
Reactions against foreign policy and the role of Buckingham
Summary
4 Parliamentary radicalism
Personalities and policies of Parliamentary opposition to the king
The Petition of Right
The Dissolution of Parliament and Charles I’s commitment to Personal Rule
Summary
SECTION 2: An experiment in Absolutism, 1629–1640
6 Religious issues
Laud and Arminianism
The growth of opposition from Puritans
Summary
7 Political issues
The Role of Thomas Wentworth
Policies in England and Ireland
Reactions against the Crown
Demands for the recall of the English Parliament
Summary
8 Radicalism, dissent and the approach of war
The spread of religious radicalism
The Scottish Covenant and the Bishops’ War
The Second Bishops’ War
Summary
SECTION 3: The crisis of Parliament and the outbreak of the First Civil War, 1640–1642
10 Pym and the development of Parliamentary radicalism
Pym’s personality and aims
The Grand Remonstrance
The London Mob
Popular radicalism
Summary
11 Conflicts between Crown and Parliament
Failure of negotiations between the king and the Long Parliament
The execution of Strafford and its political consequences
Summary
12 The slide into war
The impact of events in Ireland
The failed arrest of the Five Members
Local grievances
The slide to war
Attempts to impose royal authority and the development of a Royalist Party
Military preparations for war
Summary
PART TWO: A LEVEL: RADICALISM, REPUBLIC AND RESTORATION, 1642–1660
SECTION 4: War and radicalism, 1642–1646
13 The First Civil War: the Royalist cause
The outbreak and progression of the war
The early strengths of the Royalist cause
Decisive events in the early months of the First Civil War
How the king lost the advantage in the early months of the war
Failure of the swift, sharp blow
The consequences of Royalist failure
Summary
17 Political and religious radicalism
The politicisation of the New Model Army
Lilburne and the Levellers
The Fifth Monarchists
Ranters and other populist groups
Summary
21 The Third Civil War
The attempted Royalist revival
Defeat and exile of Prince Charles
Summary
14 The First Civil War: the Parliamentary course
The strengths and weaknesses of the Parliamentary forces
The Solemn League and Covenant
The emergence of the New Model Army
Summary
15 The intensification of radicalism
Popular radicalism in London
Religious radicalism in the New Model Army
Pamphlets and propaganda
Summary
16 The end of the First Civil War
Divisions among the Parliamentary leaders
Attempts at settlement
The capture of Charles I
Summary
SECTION 5: The disintegration of the Political Nation, 1646–1649
18 Political and religious divisions
The attitude and actions of Charles I
Divisions within the opposition to the king
The failure of attempts to reach a settlement with the king
Summary
19 The Second Civil War
Political causes of the Second Civil War
The Scottish invasion
The outcome of the Second Civil War
Summary
20 The problem of Charles I
Divisions within the army and Parliament
The trial and execution of the king
Summary
SECTION 6: Experiments in government and society 1648–1660
22 Political radicalism
Failure of the Levellers and Diggers and the ‘Godly Society’
Quakers, Baptists and other radical sects
The Rump Parliament as an experiment in radical republicanism
The Parliament of the Saints
Summary
23 Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate
Cromwell’s personality and approach to government
The Major Generals
The limits of religious toleration
Cromwell’s refusal of the Crown
The problem of the succession to Cromwell
Summary
24 The monarchy restored
The political vacuum after the death of Cromwell
Negotiations for the return of the monarchy under Charles II
The legacy of the English Revolution by 1660
Summary
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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