This book looks at London’s provision of financial and military
support for parliament’s war against King Charles I. It explores
for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique
mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which
ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on
research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the
successes and failures of efforts to move London’s vast resources
and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding
notions about the capital’s ‘parliamentarian’ makeup. It
reveals interactions between London’s Corporation, parochial
communities and livery companies, between preachers and
parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common
people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside
the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of
parliament’s eventual success in the English Civil War. -- .
General
Imprint: |
Manchester University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Jordan S. Downs
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5261-7444-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-5261-7444-8 |
Barcode: |
9781526174444 |
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