England in Conflict, 1603-1660 Kingdom, Community, Commonealth [Paperback]

In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classicAuthority and Conflictand draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, Puritanism, the church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity.

In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classicAuthority and Conflictand draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, Puritanism, the church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity.

Derek Hirst is William Eliot Smith Professor of History at Washington University, St. Louis.

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