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Why was Charles I executed?
- Title
- Why was Charles I executed? / Clive Holmes.
- Author
- Holmes, Clive, 1943-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Hambledon Continuum, 2006.
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- Description
- xv, 244 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary event in British history. Examining key issues surrounding the regicide, Clive Holmes looks at how a country descended into civil war.
- Subject
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 > Death and burial
- Karl I, England, König, 1600-1649
- Karl (Grossbritannien, König, 1)
- Karl (England, König, I.)
- Geschichte 1642-1649
- Geschichte 1642-1649
- Regicide > Great Britain
- Engelse Burgeroorlog
- Englischer Bürgerkrieg
- Bürgerkrieg
- Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649
- Great Britain > History > Charles I, 1625-1649
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1642-1649
- Engeland
- England
- Großbritannien
- England > Bürgerkrieg
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-231) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Why did Charles I call the long parliament? -- 2. How did the king gain support in parliament? -- 3. How did the king get an army? -- 4. Why did parliament win the Civil War? -- 5. Why was the king executed? -- 6. Why was the rump parliament dissolved? -- 7. Why was Cromwell offered the crown? -- 8. Was there an English Revolution?
- ISBN
- 1852852828 (hbk.)
- 9781852852825 (hbk.)
- 1847251765 (pbk.)
- 9781847251763 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006283616
- OCLC
- ocm64747523
- 64747523
- SCSB-13972272
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries