The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624

by Thomas Cogswell and Cogswell

Book Overview

This book examines the background to the English military intervention in the Thirty Years War. Blending accounts of diplomacy and factional in-fighting at Court with parliamentary and popular politics, it aims to illuminate the 'revolution' of 1624 when the Palatine crisis forced James I to abandon his long-held dream of an Anglo-Spanish dynastic alliance in favour of a more aggressive policy against the Habsburgs. In studying the English polity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521023130
• ISBN13: 9780521023139
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"