Volume 29, Number 19 · December 2, 1982
An Unwanted Civil War?
By Kevin Sharpe
The Golden Age Restor'd: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603-42
by Graham Parry
St. Martin's, 276 pp., $27.50
The Outbreak of the English Civil War
by Anthony Fletcher
New York University Press, 446 pp., $39.50
The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646
by Ronald Hutton
Longman, 271 pp., $26.00
At a time when historical works are losing wide readership, the English Civil War has remained immensely popular. Other great historical episodes, other famous battles, no less landmarks of the English historical past, have failed to arouse the same interest or emotion. On both sides of the Atlantic, seventeenth-century English history has also attracted some of the finest historical talents; like some timeless model, it has shown the best of the traditional and avant-garde in historical writing.
Review, 3632 words
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