ABSTRACT
This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
Social Classes before 1640
chapter |5 pages
The Landed Class
chapter |3 pages
Feudal Sources of Revenue
chapter |3 pages
The Life of the Gentry
chapter |6 pages
Landowners in Developing Bourgeois Society
chapter |4 pages
Sales of Land
chapter |2 pages
The New Gentry
chapter |2 pages
Merchants
chapter |2 pages
The Bourgeoisie
chapter |2 pages
The New Power of Money
chapter |2 pages
Hymn for a Merchant
chapter |1 pages
A Merchant's Advice to his Son
chapter |5 pages
Yeomen
chapter |3 pages
Conflicting Standards
chapter |4 pages
The Lower Orders
chapter |3 pages
Contrasts of Wealth and Poverty
chapter |6 pages
Paupers
chapter |2 pages
Class Feeling
chapter |3 pages
The Peasant Tradition
part |31 pages
Economic Life Before 1640
chapter |5 pages
Depopulation
chapter |3 pages
Peasant Grievances
chapter |3 pages
Agrarian Discontent, 1596
chapter |3 pages
Direct Action, 1607
chapter |2 pages
Petition Against Enclosure
chapter |2 pages
London's Merchant Companies
chapter |2 pages
For Free Trade
chapter |2 pages
The Clothing Industry
chapter |4 pages
Royal Interference with the Clothing Industry
chapter |3 pages
Monopolies
chapter |6 pages
Failure to Protect Interests of Merchants
part |47 pages
The State Machine before 1640
chapter |4 pages
The Crown
chapter |4 pages
Feudal Monarchy
chapter |2 pages
A Royal Favourite
chapter |2 pages
Sale of Offices and Honours
chapter |2 pages
The Aristocracy Depend on Court Pickings
chapter |3 pages
The Star Chamber
chapter |3 pages
The High Commission
chapter |2 pages
Class Privileges Spread Too Wide
chapter |3 pages
The Law Courts
chapter |2 pages
In Prison
chapter |3 pages
Justices of the Peace
chapter |2 pages
Class Rule
chapter |3 pages
Whom did the House of Commons Represent?
chapter |3 pages
Danger of Military Absolutism
chapter |5 pages
Parliament and Crown
chapter |2 pages
A Revolutionary Scene
chapter |2 pages
Forebodings of Conflict, c. 1615
chapter |4 pages
The Financial Situation
chapter |4 pages
Growing Financial Difficulties
chapter |4 pages
Ship Money
part |31 pages
Church and State before 1640
chapter |4 pages
The Doctrines of the Church of England
chapter |4 pages
Church and State are One
chapter |3 pages
Religion as an Instrument of Government
chapter |3 pages
What Parliamentarians Objected to in the Church
chapter |2 pages
Archbishop Laud
chapter |3 pages
What Cavaliers Objected to in the Puritans
chapter |2 pages
What was a Puritan?
chapter |4 pages
What the Cavaliers Feared
chapter |3 pages
Protestantism and the Bourgeoisie
chapter |4 pages
The Roman Catholic Threat
chapter |3 pages
Threat to the Reformation in Scotland
chapter |2 pages
Threat to the Reformation in Ireland
chapter |2 pages
The New Philosophy
part |17 pages
The International Situation
chapter |4 pages
An Ambassador's Observations
chapter |3 pages
Appeasing International Reaction
chapter |2 pages
The Parliamentary Attitude, 1621
chapter |4 pages
Relation of Home and Foreign Policy
chapter |3 pages
Influence of the Netherlands
chapter |3 pages
The Dutch Republic—A Model and a Rival
part |42 pages
The Storm Breaks
chapter |2 pages
The Opposition Organises
chapter |2 pages
Popular Pressure on the Government
chapter |3 pages
The Impeachment of Strafford
chapter |2 pages
Abolition of the Star Chamber
chapter |1 pages
Financial Control
chapter |1 pages
Charles I Tries a Coup D'etat
chapter |4 pages
Control of the Church
chapter |1 pages
The End of Government Without Parliament
chapter |4 pages
Appeal to the People
chapter |3 pages
Charles Tries another Coup
chapter |4 pages
A Revolutionary Situation
chapter |2 pages
Preparations for War
chapter |3 pages
Bourgeoisie and Parliament
chapter |5 pages
The Two Sides Line up
chapter |2 pages
Gentry Versus Freeholders
chapter |2 pages
Cavaliers and Roundheads
chapter |5 pages
The Class Division
chapter |2 pages
Importance of the City
chapter |3 pages
Fears of the Gentry
chapter |2 pages
How to Deal with Democrats
part |52 pages
The Civil War
chapter |5 pages
Causes of Civil Wars
chapter |4 pages
Historical Analyses
chapter |3 pages
Contemporary Views of the Causes of the War
chapter |4 pages
Parliamentary Debate on Causes of the War
chapter |3 pages
Religion or Glass Interests?
chapter |4 pages
The Parliamentary Army and Navy
chapter |2 pages
The Royalist Army
chapter |5 pages
Parliamentary Finance
chapter |2 pages
Royalist Finance
chapter |3 pages
Effects of War on Relations of Landlord and Tenant
chapter |3 pages
Social Unrest
chapter |4 pages
The Class Struggle
chapter |4 pages
Administration by Parliament
chapter |4 pages
Anxiety of the Aristocracy
chapter |2 pages
Scottish Army Versus Democracy
chapter |2 pages
Scottish Army in English Politics
chapter |3 pages
Cromwell Demands an Army that will Fight
chapter |3 pages
The New Model Army
chapter |3 pages
Neutrals and Others
part |21 pages
The Sects and Democracy
chapter |2 pages
Religion Not the Issue
chapter |3 pages
Presbyterians and Independents
chapter |2 pages
Connection of Religion and Politics
chapter |2 pages
Religion and Classes
chapter |2 pages
Social Aspects of Iconoclasm, 1643
chapter |3 pages
Function of Preachers
chapter |2 pages
International Connections
chapter |4 pages
Social Aspects of Religious Sects
chapter |2 pages
Cromwell Opposes Intolerance
chapter |5 pages
Milton's Views on Liberty
part |12 pages
The Levellers
chapter |1 pages
Levellers and Democracy
chapter |1 pages
Sovereignty of Parliament— and People
chapter |1 pages
Demand for Law Reform
chapter |2 pages
Opposition to Enclosures
chapter |2 pages
Against Tithes
chapter |2 pages
A Peer and the Levellers
chapter |2 pages
Reason Versus Precedent in Politics
chapter |2 pages
Levellers on Ireland
part |21 pages
Army Democracy
chapter |1 pages
The Army as Democratic Centre
chapter |2 pages
Soldiers' Delegates
chapter |1 pages
Encouraging the Officers
chapter |2 pages
The Officers Follow
chapter |2 pages
Direct Action, June 3rd, 1647
chapter |2 pages
Army's Declaration, June 14th, 1647
chapter |4 pages
The Agreement of the People
chapter |7 pages
The Putney Debates
chapter |2 pages
Anxieties of Rank and File
chapter |1 pages
Army Democracy Sabotaged
part |17 pages
The End of the Old Order
chapter |3 pages
“The Anarchy,” 1648
chapter |2 pages
The Lower Orders in Power
chapter |2 pages
Ignorance Necessary to Government
chapter |2 pages
Pride's Purge
chapter |4 pages
The End of Charles I
chapter |3 pages
Milton Defends Regicide
chapter |3 pages
Establishment of the Republic
chapter |2 pages
Distrust of Propertied Republicans
chapter |1 pages
The Need for Terror
part |17 pages
The Diggers
chapter |2 pages
The Diggers' First Appearance
chapter |2 pages
Origins of Property
chapter |1 pages
Economic Theories
chapter |1 pages
Advantages of Common Ownership
chapter |2 pages
Freedom
chapter |2 pages
The Diggers and the Poor
chapter |4 pages
The End of Feudalism
chapter |2 pages
The Revolution Not Yet Completed
chapter |1 pages
The Law Not Yet Reformed
chapter |2 pages
Priests
chapter |1 pages
Science Versus Religion
chapter |2 pages
Winstanley's Objectives
chapter |2 pages
The Diggers' Song, 1649
part |11 pages
The Defeat of the Levellers
chapter |1 pages
The Levellers Repudiate the Diggers
chapter |6 pages
The Leveller Revolt of 1649
chapter |2 pages
Quaker Social Doctrines
chapter |2 pages
The Quaker Menace to Society
chapter |1 pages
George Fox's Views
part |22 pages
Economic Problems of the Revolution
chapter |1 pages
Wards and Feudal Tenures
chapter |2 pages
Confiscation and Sale of Lands
chapter |3 pages
Losses of Royalist Landlords
chapter |3 pages
Consequences for Tenants
chapter |1 pages
Consequences for Taxation
chapter |2 pages
Land Nationalisation Proposed
chapter |3 pages
Diverse Views on Enclosure
chapter |2 pages
No Legislation for the Poor
chapter |2 pages
For Free Trade
chapter |3 pages
Trade and Imperial Expansion
chapter |4 pages
Cromwell in Ireland
part |24 pages
Growing Conservatism
chapter |2 pages
Opposition to Law Reform
chapter |3 pages
More Radical Reform Needed
chapter |1 pages
Popular Anxiety
chapter |4 pages
Radicalism's Last Change
chapter |2 pages
Failure of the Barebones Parliament
chapter |1 pages
The Lord Protector
chapter |1 pages
Cromwell's Theory of Revolution
chapter |2 pages
Social Basis of Protectorate
chapter |3 pages
Republicans on the Protectorate
chapter |4 pages
The Republican Alternative
chapter |2 pages
Views of a Former Agitator
chapter |2 pages
Cromwell Attacks the Left
chapter |2 pages
A Conservative Church Settlement
chapter |2 pages
The Crown Offered to Oliver
part |22 pages
The Restoration and After
