England in Conflict, 1603-1660

Download or read book England in Conflict, 1603-1660 written by Derek Hirst and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1999 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, is a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict, England 1603-1658 (published in 1986). Hirst has drawn on a decade of research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, puritanism, the church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity.