- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Longman; 3 edition (14 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0582772516
- ISBN-13: 978-0582772519
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #65 in Books > History > Academic History
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"What an excellent book this is. The second edition provides without doubt the most up-to-date and the most judicious overview of the seventeenth century we are likely to have for many years" History Today
"Anyone who reads it and is bored has no interest in Stuart England"Clayton Roberts
"This is the introductory survey of seventeenth-century English history for which teachers in sixth form and tertiary education have been waiting for years."HistoryProduct Description
Occupying the top spot on most undergraduate reading lists for this period, and widely used by teachers and students on A-level courses on early modern British history, The Stuart Age is the definitive history of England’s century of civil war and revolution.
This new edition clarifies and makes sense of recent historiographical trends over the last decade. In a substantial new introduction to the volume, Barry Coward provides an important assessment of the impact of new revisionist approaches on historical writing about the Stuart age.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book would seem to be aimed for the academic/college reader, full of the facts and dates, although even myself (who never even did GCSE History) found it a very interesting read.
Covering what has to be seen as the more "colourful" part of the British history... (The very idea of a Scottish king on the English throne... and even a civil war thrown in) the facts alone make for a great read, and the author keeps the history flowing and any good "story-teller" should.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn more about the facts and stories about this important age in English (and British) history.
Lee Kershaw
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An excellent introduction
2 May 2006
Format:Paperback
I consider myself reasonably well read and with a long standing interest in history, although mostly either ancient or twentieth century. However, before picking up this book I new almost nothing about what is known as the long seventeenth century. As my interest developed after reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque cycle of novels and a couple of biographies of Robert Hooke and Samuel Pepys I looked for a good introductory book on the period.
This is that book.
It really provides an excellent introduction to the sweep of politics and developments from the ascension of James VI and I to the throne of England, though the civil war and subsequent commonwealth, through to the Glorious Revolution and beyond to the death of Queen Anne and the Hannoverian age.
Barry Coward does an excellent job of keeping the reader focussed on the developments and themes that ran though the period (religion, with catholics, protestants and non-conformists; the evolution of 'government' between monarch and parliament). He explains the evolution of current thinking about the period, and whilst making his own opinion clear he does say when alternative interpretations are available.
Of course there are many times when I wish that he could have explored topics in greater depth (the whole civil war take only part of one chapter, for example), but there are more specialist books available on every subject (many referred to in the excellent bibliography). Also there are many thousands of people mentioned by name, and a short biographical section would have been useful to me, but the main personalities can be researched on wikipedia if required.
Overall, get this book, read this book and then be prepared to read a lot more books on the parts that interest you.
This is that book.
It really provides an excellent introduction to the sweep of politics and developments from the ascension of James VI and I to the throne of England, though the civil war and subsequent commonwealth, through to the Glorious Revolution and beyond to the death of Queen Anne and the Hannoverian age.
Barry Coward does an excellent job of keeping the reader focussed on the developments and themes that ran though the period (religion, with catholics, protestants and non-conformists; the evolution of 'government' between monarch and parliament). He explains the evolution of current thinking about the period, and whilst making his own opinion clear he does say when alternative interpretations are available.
Of course there are many times when I wish that he could have explored topics in greater depth (the whole civil war take only part of one chapter, for example), but there are more specialist books available on every subject (many referred to in the excellent bibliography). Also there are many thousands of people mentioned by name, and a short biographical section would have been useful to me, but the main personalities can be researched on wikipedia if required.
Overall, get this book, read this book and then be prepared to read a lot more books on the parts that interest you.
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