The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context.

Michael J. Braddick was educated at Cambridge University where he took both his BA and PhD degrees. Before coming to Sheffield in 1990, he taught at the University of Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2009-2013. Braddick has held visiting positions at the Huntington Library, California, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on aspects of state formation and popular politics, the English revolution, and the growth of the British Atlantic world.

- Introduction - 1: Michael J. Braddick: Civil war and revolution in England, Scotland and Ireland - 2: Peter Lake: Post-Reformation Politics, or on not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War - Events - 3: Julian Goodare: The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637-1644 - 4: Richard Cust: The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637-1642 - 5: Joseph Cope: The Irish Rising - 6: Michael J. Braddick: War and politics in England and Wales 1642-1646 - 7: Laura A. M. Stewart: Scottish Politics, 1644-1651 - 8: Micheál Ó Siochrú: The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643-1649 - 9: Philip Baker: The regicide - 10: Derek Hirst: Security and Reform in England's Other Nations 1649-1658 - 11: David L. Smith: English politics in the 1650s - 12: Tim Harris: The Restoration in Britain and Ireland - Institutions and Actors - 13: J. C. Davis: Oliver Cromwell - 14: David L. Smith: Parliaments and Constitutions - 15: Andrew Hopper: The Armies - 16: Jason Peacey: The Revolution in Print - 17: Stephen K. Roberts: State and Society in the English Revolution - 18: Phil Withington: Urban Citizens and England's Civil Wars - 19: John Walter: Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution - 20: Ann Hughes: 'Gender trouble': Women's agency and gender relations in the English Revolution - 21: R. Scott Spurlock: State, politics and society in Scotland, 1637-1660 - 22: Toby Barnard: State, politics and society in Ireland, 1641-1662 - Parties, Ideas and People - 23: Alan Cromartie: The Persistence of Royalism - 24: Rachel Foxley: Varieties of Parliamentarianism - 25: Ted Vallance: Political thought - 26: John Coffey: Religious Thought - 27: Steven N. Zwicker: 'May you live in interesting times': The literature of Civil War, Revolution and Restoration - 28: Timothy Wilks: The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution and Restoration - Wider Perspectives - 29: John Miller: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development - 30: Mark Knights: The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: State Formation, Political Culture, and Ideology - 31: Laura Lunger Knoppers: Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art - 32: John Morrill: The English Revolution in British and Irish context - 33: Peter H. Wilson: Kingdom Divided: the British and Continental European Conflicts Compared