| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 421 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; A Note to the Reader; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Cromwell and the Sin of Achan; 2 Providence and Politics; 3 Toleration and the Protectorate; 4 Politics, Piety, and Learning: Cromwellian Oxford; 5 Cromwell and his Councillors; 6 Cromwell and the Protectorate; 7 Kingship, the Commonwealth, and Single Rule; 8 Civil and Religious Liberty; 9 John Milton: Life and Writing; 10 Clarendon: History, Religion, Politics; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
"The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660"--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
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Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 fast |
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Church and state -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Heads of state -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Generals -- Great Britain -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Church and state
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Generals
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Heads of state
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Politics and government
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056895
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Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056798
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Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056796
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England
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191624414 |
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0191624411 |
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