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Rebellion - Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 (Hardcover)
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Rebellion - Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 (Hardcover)
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A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting
periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two
Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and
why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise in
rebellion against Stuart rule. Both James VI and I and his son
Charles I were reforming monarchs, who endeavoured to bolster the
authority of the crown and bring the churches in their separate
kingdoms into closer harmony with one another. Many of James's
initiatives proved controversial - his promotion of the plantation
of Ulster, his reintroduction of bishops and ceremonies into the
Scottish kirk, and his stormy relationship with his English
parliaments over religion and finance - but he just about got by.
Charles, despite continuing many of his father's policies in church
and state, soon ran into difficulties and provoked all three of his
kingdoms to rise in rebellion: first Scotland in 1638, then Ireland
in 1641, and finally England in 1642. Was Charles's failure, then,
a personal one; was he simply not up to the job? Or was the
multiple-kingdom inheritance fundamentally unmanageable, so that it
was only a matter of time before things fell apart? Did perhaps the
way that James sought to address his problems have the effect of
making things more difficult for his son? Tim Harris addresses all
these questions and more in this wide-ranging and deeply researched
new account, dealing with high politics and low, constitutional and
religious conflict, propaganda and public opinion across the three
kingdoms - while also paying due attention to the broader European
and Atlantic contexts.
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