Turncoats and Renegadoes - Changing Sides During the English Civil Wars

Zusatztext a significant and lively contribution Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hopper obtained his doctorate at the University of York in 1999. He then worked as a research fellow at the Universities of East Anglia and Birmingham before being appointed a 'new blood' lecturer in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester in 2006. He has written many articles on allegiance during the civil wars, and has recently edited the papers of the Hothams for the Camden Society. He is best known for his monograph 'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (2007). Klappentext The first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. Reveals how side-changing shaped the course of the English Revolution, even contributing to the regicide itself, and remained an important political legacy to the English speaking peoples thereafter. Zusammenfassung The first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. Reveals how side-changing shaped the course of the English Revolution, even contributing to the regicide itself, and remained an important political legacy to the English speaking peoples thereafter. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: A profile of side-changing in England and Wales, 1642-1646 1: A turncoat aristocracy 2: 'Ambi-dexter' MPs 3: Military professionals: 'renegado' army officers 4: Popular allegiance and side-changing among rank and file soldiers 5: Chronological and regional patterns to side-changing Part II: A cultural history of side-changing 6: Political oath-taking and the fear of treachery 7: The language of treachery in newsbooks and polemic 8: Honour, reputation, and the self-fashioning of elite side-changers 9: Trial and execution: defectors and military justice Conclusion Epilogue Appendices Bibliography

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• Authors: Andrew Hopper, Andrew Qc Hopper
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780199575855
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957585-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), English Civil War, Civil wars, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800), HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars