"Authority and Conflict' was 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 make 'England in Conflict' as much a book for the first decade of the next millennium as 'Authority and Conflict' was a book for the 1980s.' John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge 'A superb book...This history of England explains the 'British Problem' with authority and conviction... 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

• The body politic; the holy and the unholy; the politic society; peaceable kingdon, 1603-1620; peace and war in Masquarde 1621-1629; renewal and recalcitrance, 1629-1638; crisis in three kingdoms, 1638-1642; taking sides; Civil war, 1642-1646; reaction and revolution, 1646-1649; the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653; Oliver Protector, 1653-1658; republicans, royalists and others, 1658-1660.

"Authority and Conflict' was 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 make 'England in Conflict' as much a book for the first decade of the next millennium as 'Authority and Conflict' was a book for the 1980s.' John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge 'A superb book...This history of England explains the 'British Problem' with authority and conviction... 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

• The body politic; the holy and the unholy; the politic society; peaceable kingdon, 1603-1620; peace and war in Masquarde 1621-1629; renewal and recalcitrance, 1629-1638; crisis in three kingdoms, 1638-1642; taking sides; Civil war, 1642-1646; reaction and revolution, 1646-1649; the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653; Oliver Protector, 1653-1658; republicans, royalists and others, 1658-1660.

"Authority and Conflict' was 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 make 'England in Conflict' as much a book for the first decade of the next millennium as 'Authority and Conflict' was a book for the 1980s.' John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge 'A superb book...This history of England explains the 'British Problem' with authority and conviction... 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

• The body politic; the holy and the unholy; the politic society; peaceable kingdon, 1603-1620; peace and war in Masquarde 1621-1629; renewal and recalcitrance, 1629-1638; crisis in three kingdoms, 1638-1642; taking sides; Civil war, 1642-1646; reaction and revolution, 1646-1649; the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653; Oliver Protector, 1653-1658; republicans, royalists and others, 1658-1660.