Second Hand The Rise of the New Model Army
Author : Mark A. Kishlansky
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Condition
Good condition in good dust jacket. The dust jacket shows noticeable age-related wear, including rubbing, fading and surface marking, with edge wear and chipping. There is heavier fraying and small areas of loss around the head of the spine and upper corners.
The boards and binding appear firm and secure. The page block shows general age-toning, but the internal pages appear clean and generally unmarked. No ownership inscriptions, highlighting, loose or missing pages.
A sound first-edition copy with a worn but complete original dust jacket.
Details
General - Pages : 377 | Images : No illustrations | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication : Cambridge / New York | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1979 | Edition : First edition | Size : 235mm x 162mm | ISBN : 0521227518
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Mark A. Kishlansky’s influential revisionist study of the origins and political development of the New Model Army during the English Civil War.
Rather than treating the army as a politically radical body from its inception, Kishlansky challenges older interpretations of the New Model Army and argues that its political transformation developed gradually in response to the circumstances of the later 1640s.
The first part examines the Parliamentarian cause, the creation of the New Model Army in 1645, its military triumph over the Royalists and its initial involvement in Parliamentary politics. The second follows the collapse of conventional Parliamentary politics, the growth of party divisions and the army’s emergence as an increasingly independent political force.
Particular attention is given to the relationship between soldiers and Parliament, the rise of radical political ideas, the army’s evolving corporate identity and the political crisis that developed following the defeat of Charles I.
Kishlansky’s interpretation became an important contribution to the revisionist historiography of seventeenth-century Britain, challenging assumptions about both the revolutionary character of the New Model Army and the development of radical politics during the Civil War. Cambridge continues to describe the work as challenging fundamental assumptions concerning the army’s political development.
This is the original Cambridge University Press first edition of 1979.
