num_pages: 390
description: Without question Authority and Conflict is the most up-to-date well-balanced and interesting survey of the politics of this tumultuous period that we are likely to have for a long time.It would be a great pity if so successful a synthesis of modern and traditional scholarship one written with such verve and elegance did not also find a wider audience of educated readers. -- Lawrence Stone New York Review of BooksThis is the most satisfactory one-volume history of the half-century between the death of Elizabeth and that of Cromwell. Free of ideological bias fully informed and gracefully written it is a very able introduction to one of the most complex eras in English history. -- Wallace T. MacCaffrey
language: English
title: Authority and Conflict: England, 1603-1658
publisher: Harvard University Press