The English Atlantic in an age of revolution, 1640-1661 /

Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plan...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Pestana, Carla Gardina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Revolution and the English Atlantic
  • The English Atlantic in 1640
  • The challenge of civil war
  • Puritan ascendancy and religious polarization
  • Regicide and royalist rebellions
  • Religious politics of a "Puritan revolution"
  • Free trade and freeborn English men
  • Lost liberty and laboring people in the Atlantic world
  • The English Atlantic and the limits of restoration
  • Appendix 1. Population figures, 1640
  • Appendix 2. London pamphlets about New England, 1641-1649.