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The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660

Autor Henry Reece
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From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. In The Army in Cromwellian England Henry Reece describes the nature of that experience for the first time, both for officers and soldiers, and for civilian society.The volume is structured in three parts. The first section seeks to capture the experience of being a member of a peacetime standing army: its varying size, the reasons why men joined and remained in service, how long they served for, what officers and their men spent their time doing in peacetime, the criteria governing promotion, and the way in which officers and soldiers engaged with political issues as the army's role changed from the pressure-group politics of the late 1640s to the institutionalization of its power after 1653. The second part explores the impact of the military presence on civilian society by establishing where soldiers were quartered and garrisoned, how effectively and regularly they were paid, the material burden that they represented, the divisive effects on some major towns of the army's patronage of religious radicals, and the extensive involvement of army officers in the government of the localities, both before and after the brief appearance of Cromwell's Major-Generals. The final section pulls together the themes from the earlier parts of the book by re-evaluating the army's role in political events from Cromwell's death to the restoration of the Stuart monarchy; it describes how the issues of the rapidly-increasing size of the army, shortage of pay, civil-military clashes, and the exercise of military authority at local level contributed to the climate of disorder and uncertainty in 1659-1660; and delineates how and why the army that had occupied London, purged parliament, and executed Charles I in the late 1640s could acquiesce so passively in the restoration of the monarchy in 1659-1600.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198726524
ISBN-10: 019872652X
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Henry Reece read History at Bristol University and did his D.Phil. at St John's College, Oxford. He spent thirty years in publishing, latterly as chief executive of Oxford University Press from 1998 to 2009. Oxford University awarded him an Honorary D.Litt. in 2010. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He now lives on Vancouver Island in Canada.

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The Army in Cromwellian England 1649-1660 is an elegant synthesis of forty years' worth of historiography, securely anchored in primary sources. Reece's conclusions lead us to reconsider long-held orthodoxies, such as the beliefs that an 'un-English' autocracy characterized the Commonwealth and Protectorate, and that the return of the Stuarts was inevitable.
Recommended
Reece has shown us how essential the army was to establishing stability and the rule of law following victory. We have an even greater feel for the war and peace in mid-seventeenth century Britain as a result.
a long-awaited and very important book.
Henry Reece has given us a study of major importance, finely judged, stimulating, and based on massive and impeccable research.
"This book has marinaded for longer than most" Henry Reece remarks... His book is the best possible advertisement for marinading. It is a fine scholarly achievement, required reading for all who take England's republican experiment seriously... Reece's excellent book certainly makes us think hard; on the army itself it is surely definitive.
this is a very fine study
an excellent treatment of the ... day-to-day experience of the peacetime army of the Commonwealth and Protectorate ... As this body of men was, beyond doubt, the empowering force of English (and indeed British and Irish) political developments between 1647 and 1660, to achieve such a well-rounded portrait of it is extremely valuable.
The judges were very impressed with Henry Reece's incisive and thoroughly researched analysis ... His clear and readable book makes an important contribution to knowledge of the period.
Reece's book succeeds in two regards: it provides detailed analysis of a topic that has not received much scholarly attention (the nature and impact of the standing army during the Interregnum), and it offers a new interpretation of a major historical event (the demise of the army in 1659-60) ... this book, and the research grounding it, will benefit future studies of military, local, and political histories of the Interregnum.
a thoughtful, well-researched and strongly argued contribution to our understanding of the role and position of the army in England, particularly valuable and generally convincing in casting further light on the military's role in local administration, on Oliver Cromwell's handling of the army and its officers and -- its freshest and biggest contribution -- on the army's conspicuously limited opposition to Monck and the path to the Restoration.
This is institutional history ... of a very sophisticated and readable kind. The command of sources is formidable and the style is lucid and often trenchant ... Reece's book is necessary reading for all who hope to explain it [the Restoration].
This is an intriguing study of a crucial institution at a critical time in English history. It is a complex story ... and Reece does an excellent job in describing it.