Oliver Cromwell
Subtitle: pretender, Puritan, statesman, paradox?
By: edited by John F.H. New.
Series: European problem studies
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780030851780
Subjects: Cromwell, Oliver, -- 1599-1658.
Description: Few contemporaries boasted that they really knew Cromwell. Perhaps he did not know himself. He thought of himself as an ordinary Englishman, yet it is apparent that he was an extraordinary man. Cromwell rose to greatness suddenly, and in middle age; but unlike others whose rise was swift, he was never an adventurer in politics, nor a wayward genius whose life's blood was refreshed by political play. Despite the charges of the jealous and the alienated, he seems to have had no lust for high office and no pretensions to pomp and circumstance. One tends to think of Cromwell as the spawn of the revolution, thrown to prominence and power in the cataract of events after 1642, and to forget that he was also a cause of the revolution, embodying in his person some of the sources of discontent in the kingdom and nurturing the bracing spirit which made the waging of a civil war both thinkable and feasible. - Introduction.
Notes: Bibliographyp.121-124.
Table of contents: title: Cromwell, the usurper / J. Heath; title: Festering ambition / E. Ludlow; title: Self-justification / O. Cromwell; title: The Christian in politics / R. S. Paul; title: Defender of Protestantism / M. D'Aubigné; title: The hero cometh / T. Carlyle; title: The ordinary Englishman / J. Buchan; title: Hitler illuminates Cromwell / W. C. Abbott; title: Against an analogy between Cromwell and Napoleon / Lord Macaulay; title: A high assessment / C. Firth; title: Political ends miscarry / J. Morley; title: Cromwell's failure with parliaments / H. R. Trevor-Roper; title: Paradoxes of personality and revolution / C. Hill; title: Cromwell and the paradoxes of Puritanism / J. F. H. New; title: Cromwell's place in history / S. R. Gardiner