Table of Contents

PREFACE

NOTES ON NOMENCLATURE

1) INTRODUCTION

2) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (Pre-1500)

3) THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

4) THE PURITANS

5) THE FRANCHISE

6) THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

7) ENGLAND AND THE EARLY STUARTS (1603-1640)

8) THE ATLANTIC MERCHANTS

9) RELIGION, REBELLION AND WAR (1637-1640)

10) PARLIAMENT AND THE PEOPLE: THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1640-1641)

11) THE MAY DAYS (1641)

12) THE DECEMBER DAYS AND THE END OF FEUDAL POWER (1641-1642)

13) THE LONDON REVOLUTION IN POWER (1642)

14) THE REVOLUTION IN THE COUNTRYSIDE (1642)

15) THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE INTENSIFIES (1642-1643)

16) THE CRISIS OF THE REVOLUTION (Summer, 1643)

17) CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX

English Rulers 1485-1714

Timeline of Events