Record details

• ISBN: 0525247408
• ISBN: 9780525247401
• Physical Description: 506 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: 1st American ed.
• Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton, 1989, 1987.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Most essays previously published.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Truth and opinion -- The velvet study -- The origins of Germany -- Martin Luther -- The divisions harden -- Shakespeare -- the close of an epoch -- Cavalier poetry and cavalier politics -- The causes of the Civil War -- Miss Mangnall of the questions -- The city of God -- The last masque -- Strafford -- Cardinal Richelieu -- The strategy of the Great Civil War -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Scots and English, 1603-40 -- Principles and perspectives -- Social comedy in the reign of Charles I -- Reflections on the Great Civil War -- Falkland -- Some contemporary accounts of the Great Civil War -- Two Painters -- King Charles I and the Protestant cause -- The battle of Rocroi -- Art, truth, and history -- The conversion of Malta -- The common man in the Civil War -- Literature and the historian -- Captain Hind and the highwayman -- The German myth -- Oliver Cromwell and the Elizabethan inheritance -- Edward Gibbon -- The scientists and the English Civil War -- William Penn -- Aspects of politics -- Shakespeare between two civil wars -- Good company -- The sense of the past -- 'Good King Charles's golden days' -- History and imagination -- Return to Paris : winter 1945 -- The English Civil War in perspective -- The historian and the world -- History and hope.

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Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Europe > History.
Historiography.