The origins of the English Civil War : conspiracy, crusade, or class conflict? / Edited by Philip A.M. Taylor.

Contributor Taylor, Philip A. M.

Imprint:Boston : Heath, [1960]

Description107 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes some primary source material.

Note:PART I: TWO THEMES: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR: -- Liberty versus despotism: the classic Whig statement / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The English bourgeois revolution: a Marxist interpretation / Christopher Hill -- PART II: THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR AS SEEN BY SOME CONTEMPORARIES: A constitutional royalist views the work of extremists in the House of Commons / Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon -- Puritanism and liberty versus prelacy and despotism / Lucy Hutchinson -- The English people seduced into rebellion / Thomas Hobbes -- A moderate puritan looks at the extreme policies of sinful men / Richard Baxter -- PART III: TEN VARIATIONS: SOME CONTRIBUTIONS OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP: The gentry take the power to which their economic success entitles them / Richard H. Tawney -- Poor and discontented gentry rebel against established institutions / Hugh R. Trevor-Roper -- The wealthy parliamentary gentry, and the reality of idology / J.H. Hexter -- Puritanism: a dynamic faith / William Haller -- Eminent puritan laymen form an interest group / H.J. Hexter -- The decline of the council and the loss of royal control over Parliament / David H. Willson -- The realities of Charles I's personal rule / C.V. Wedgwood -- The ideal of a balanced constitution / Margaret A. Judson -- Revolutionary tactics, and Charles I's decisive blunder / C.V. Wedgwood -- Work still to be done / Christopher Hill.

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