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Oliver Cromwell (Reputations) (Paperback)

by J. C. Davis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (30 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340731184
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340731185
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Colin Davis brings an unrelenting intelligence to his interrogation of the treacherous sources for the life of Oliver Cromwell, and he demands answers to radical questions. The result is a study that is wonderfully fresh, bold and challenging. It makes for gripping reading. --John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish Histo

<br /><br />Overall, this book is excellent and is a very enjoyable read. Concise and clear, it is a good starting point for those who do not know much about Oliver Cromwell. However, for those with more knowledge it offers new and often valuable insigts into the man and includes all the latest historical research. I can thoroughly recommend this book. --Journal of the Sealed Knot Society

<br /><br />Although other historians have already provided recent and easily accessible studies of Cromwell...Davis's is distinctively different and will undoubtedly find new readers. --Times Higher Education Supplement


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Colin Davis brings an unrelenting intelligence to his interrogation of the treacherous sources for the life of Oliver Cromwell, and he demands answers to radical questions. The result is a study that is wonderfully fresh, bold and challenging. It makes for gripping reading. (John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish Histo )

Overall, this book is excellent and is a very enjoyable read. Concise and clear, it is a good starting point for those who do not know much about Oliver Cromwell. However, for those with more knowledge it offers new and often valuable insigts into the man and includes all the latest historical research. I can thoroughly recommend this book. (Journal of the Sealed Knot Society )

Although other historians have already provided recent and easily accessible studies of Cromwell...Davis's is distinctively different and will undoubtedly find new readers. (Times Higher Education Supplement )

Davis's is the best analysis we have of Cromwell's religion and its politics. (Journal of Modern History )

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4.0 out of 5 stars A reputation enhanced, 3 Feb 2006
By G. J. Weeks (London) - See all my reviews
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This is a volume in a series called, Reputations, examining "the reputations of some of history's most conspicuous, powerful and influential individuals". This book certainly prompts me to seek out other such volumes for it is simply the best assessment of Oliver Cromwell that I have read.

The varying reputation of Cromwell since his death is examined then he is considered as to his remarkably swift rise from obscurity, variously as as soldier, man of God, politician and state builder.

As John Morrill has written, the key to understanding Cromwell is his providentialism. Davis agrees that you have to understand the puritan doctrine of providence to understand and judge Cromwell. Students from a secularist age are not qualified to appreciate this man unless they can enter into an understanding of the Christianity centered age that was 17th century Britain. Davis has a true understanding of the period and therefore of the man. Cromwell's reputation is rightly understood and enhanced by Davis.

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