The Causes of the English Civil War (Ford Lectures)
"Essential reading for scholars and undergraduates."--History: Reviews of New Books"Driven by a powerful central theme and illuminated by flashes of brilliance."--American Historical Review"This is a wonderful set of lectures.  It is quite the best thing I know on the vexed problems of causes, and presents Lord Russell in a new and most impressive guise."--J.H.M. Salmon,Bryn Mawr College"The work's indispensability and profound scholarship cannot be denied."--Choice"Russell succeeds in atour de forceof accessible scholarship....Russell's vision of the civil war will henceforth be our ruling orthodoxy.  His is a remarkable achievement."--The Times (London)