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CROMWELL?S MAJOR-GENERALS IBD

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
05 / 2001
9780719060656
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Sinopsis

The first full-scale study of the rule of Cromwell?s major-generals over England and Wales during 1655 and 1656. This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day. Contains chapters on the three most important aspects of the major-generals? work: the collection of the decimation tax, the attempt to improve the security of the regime, and the struggle to build the ?Godly Nation?. Concludes with an investigation of the 1656 election and the major-generals subsequent unexpected fall from power. Fills a major gap in the historiography of Cromwellian England.