The lead-up to the English Civil War is known by several names, one of them being theEra of Personal Rule, which lasted from 1629 to 1640. This was the period when Charles I, fed up with his regular struggles with Parliament, decreed to dissolve the institution in 1629. This meant that...
When the civil war officially began in August 1642, Royalist forces (called Cavaliers) dominated northern and western England, whereas Parliamentarians (or Roundheads) ruled the south and east. By early 1643, the king’s armies looked to be gaining the upper hand, especially after allying with...
and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. In an excitingly fresh approach to the period, Diane Purkiss tells the story of this critical era not just in terms of the battle of ideas, but as the histories of the people who conceived them. "The English Civil War" builds ...
The lack of military experience in the English establishment showed itself immediately in the Civil War. It took time to work out command structures and to devise tactics for use in battle. In the opening weeks neither side seemed to have a workable strategy. Both sides, once they had taken ...
Not surprisingly, given the long-lived Georges’ (there were four of them in the span from 1714 to 1830) tendency to inattention and madness, the period was marked by a transition to the current system of a cabinet government led by a prime minister under a “constitutional” monarch. ...
Francis Fukuyama.The Last English Civil War,2018Francis Fukuyama, "The Last English Civil War," Daedalus 147 (1) (Winter 2018).The timeframe of the un, and of political actors, is inevitably much shorter than the time- frame of history. See F...
"For King or Country" is a mod for Medieval 2: Total War that depicts the English civil wars. There are two factions: the Parliamentarians and the Royalists. The map is detailed and accurate for the time period. There are twelve historical commanders...
We collect and record films that have as their topic the civil war and, as senders-producers, Greek directors of the same time period. Thus, the Greek civil war can be read as a historic/social/political event through the channel of cinema. In the most historic discourses about the civil...
English Civil War’ “There is a time for everything”*… Five elements from a painted hanging depicting the Crossing of the Red Sea, Byzantine, circa second century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art … and the time for the Word came later than many of us seem to understand… The oldest ...
This may be said to close with the Civil War, about 1860.This period was marked by the arrival of the newimmigrants(移民) from Ireland and Germany. The third period, since the Civil War, is marked by an important change in the source from which the European...