Second Hand Roundhead Reputations
The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity
Author : Blair Worden
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Very good condition in very good condition dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected in a clear archival sleeve and remains clean and attractive with only light shelf wear. Binding is firm and square, pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Small pencil price notation to the front endpaper. Overall a well-preserved and highly presentable copy.
Details
General - Pages : 386 | Images : Black-and-white illustrations and portraits throughout | Publisher : Allen Lane | Place of Publication : London, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 2001 | Edition : First edition | Size : 244mm x 167mm | ISBN : 9780713996036
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An influential study of how the legacy of the English Civil Wars has been interpreted, contested and reshaped over more than three centuries. Rather than recounting the military events of the conflict itself, Blair Worden explores the changing reputations of the Parliamentarian cause and its leading figures in British political and historical culture.
The book examines the afterlives of key Roundhead personalities including Edmund Ludlow, Algernon Sidney and Oliver Cromwell, tracing how successive generations of writers, politicians and historians reinterpreted their actions and ideals. Worden analyses the development of Whig, republican, liberal and radical traditions, showing how memories of the Civil Wars became central to debates about liberty, government and national identity.
Combining intellectual history, political thought and historiography, this award-winning work is widely regarded as one of the most important modern studies of the historical memory of the English Civil Wars and the enduring influence of seventeenth-century political ideas.
