England in Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth (Hodder Arnold Publication)
"A superb book...Explains the 'British Problem' with authority and conviction. And the subtlety of approach and the delightful writing make a very rewarding 'must' for all those who seek to understand England, 1603-1660."—Jenny Wormald, C.E. Hodge Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Hilda's College, Oxford"One of the most informed, balanced and—especially on the 1640s and 1650s—most enriching of early modern survey books. Building on the foundations of that book, Derek Hirst has now enhanced and broadened the account in ways that makeEngland in Conflictas much a book for the first decade of the next millennium as (his) Authority and Conflictwas a book for the 1980s and 1990s."—John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge