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Turncoats and renegadoes : changing sides during the English civil wars /
Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and Ireland. The first half identifies side-change...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Note to the reader
- Introduction
- PART I.A PROFILE OF SIDEÂCHANGING IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1642â€?1646
- 1. A turncoat aristocracy
- 2. �Ambi-dexter� MPs
- 3. Military professionals: �renegado� army officers
- 4. Popular allegiance and side-changing among rank-and-file soldiers
- 5. Chronological and regional patterns to side-changing
- PART II. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SIDEÂCHANGING
- 6. Political oath-taking and the fear of treachery
- 7. The language of treachery in newsbooks and polemic8. Honour, reputation, and the self-fashioning of elite side-changers
- 9. Trial and execution: defectors and military justice
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Defectors from the House of Commons at Westminster
- Appendix 2: MP defectors from the king
- Appendix 3: Officer defectors from the army of the earl of Essex, 1642�45
- Bibliography
- Index
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