England Under the Stuarts

G. M. Trevelyan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780367705343
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000385809
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

'While Germany boasts her Reformation and France her Revolution, England can point to her dealings with the House of Stuart.' - G.M. Trevelyan, from the Introduction

England Under the Stuarts is an outstanding and highly engaging account of English history in the years between 1603 and 1714, charting England's path from nation to empire. G. M. Trevelyan's masterful narrative explores the major events of this period, which witnessed the upheavals of the Civil War, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.

While never neglecting to examine the social, economic and religious conditions of English life, Trevelyan highlights the epic struggle between the threats of absolutism and despotism and the staunch political liberty and toleration that emerged during these years. He also gives the reader a vivid sense of what it was like to be there at the time, conveying a rich and dramatic flavour of events. As such, England Under the Stuarts remains certain to inform and delight anybody with an interest in this period of English history.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Gaunt.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition
• List of Maps
• Principal Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
• Preface to the Revised Edition of 1925
• Preface to the Pelican Edition
• Introduction
• 1. England, 1603–40 – the Upper Class: its Life, Culture, and Social Functions – Law, Police, and Humanitarianism
• 2. England, 1603–40 – the Middle and Lower Classes in Country and Town – Industry and Commerce – the Conditions Favourable to Poetry and to Religion
• 3. James I – Puritans and Catholics
• 4. James I – Parliaments and Courtiers
• 5. The Rule of Buckingham – Wars and Parliaments, 1624–8
• 6. The Personal Government of Charles I, 1629–40
• 7. The Formation of Parties, November 1640 – August 1642
• 8. The Civil War, 1642–6
• 9. Parliament, Army, and King, 1646–9
• 10. The Revolutionary Governments, 1649–60
• 11. The Restoration Epoch, 1660–78
• 12. The Reigns of Terror, 1678–85
• 13. James II, 1685–8
• 14. William and Mary Genealogical Key to the Problem of the Spanish Succession
• 15. The Reign of Anne, 1702–14
• Genealogy of the House of Stuart
• List of Parliaments, 1603–1715
• Appendix A: How America was Peopled by the English
• Appendix B: The Poor Law after the Restoration
• Appendix C: Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey?
• Appendix D: Commercial and Colonial Policy of the Restoration Era
• Appendix E: Finance Under the Restoration and Revolution Settlements
• Bibliography
• Index