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The Personal Rule of Charles I (Paperback, 1st Paperback)
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The Personal Rule of Charles I (Paperback, 1st Paperback)
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In 1625 Charles I succeeded to the throne of a nation heavily
involved in a European war and deeply divided by religious
controversy. Within four years he had transformed the political
landscape of Britain, dissolved parliament, and begun a period of
eleven years of personal rule. The nature of the King's government
and the circumstances of its eventual collapse are central to an
understanding of the origins of the English Civil War that
followed. Kevin Sharpe's massive and authoritative analysis, based
on a decade of research across a vast range of manuscript and
printed sources, amounts to the most significant contribution to
the history of early Stuart government since Gardiner's four-volume
classic work in 1877. Sharpe presents an entirely fresh picture of
Charles I and his annexation of power. He analyzes the personality,
principles, and policies of a monarch who, after summoning more
parliaments in his first year of rule than his predecessors had for
a century, determined to govern without them. He assesses Charles'
program of reform in central and local government and in church and
state, and he discusses the years of peace and prosperity it
engendered. He also examines priorities in foreign affairs and
their impact on domestic policy. Sharpe subtly evaluates the degree
of cooperation and opposition elicited and provoked by personal
rule, and he analyzes the Scottish rebellion of 1637 that
occasioned its undoing. The book yields rich new insights into the
history of the reign, politics and religion, foreign policy and
finance, the court and the counties, and attitudes and ideas. It
provides a substantial reevaluation of the character of the king,
the importance of parliaments, and the process of government
without them. And it represents a critical new perspective on the
origins of the political struggle that ended on the battlefields of
the English Civil War.
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