{"product_id":"the-personal-rule-of-charles-i","title":"The Personal Rule of Charles I","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1625 Charles I succeeded to the throne of a nation heavily involved in a European war and deeply divided by religious controversy. Within four years he had transformed the political landscape of Britain  dissolved parliament  and begun a period of eleven years of personal rule. The nature of the Kings government and the circumstances of its eventual collapse are central to an understanding of the origins of the English Civil War that followed. Kevin Sharpes massive and authoritative analysis  based on a decade of research across a vast range of manuscript and printed sources  amounts to the most significant contribution to the history of early Stuart government since Gardiners four-volume classic work in 1877.  Sharpe presents an entirely fresh picture of Charles I and his annexation of power. He analyzes the personality  principles  and policies of a monarch who  after summoning more parliaments in his first year of rule than his predecessors had for a century  determined to govern without them. He assesses Charles program of reform in central and local government and in church and state  and he discusses the years of peace and prosperity it engendered. He also examines priorities in foreign affairs and their impact on domestic policy. Sharpe subtly evaluates the degree of cooperation and opposition elicited and provoked by personal rule  and he analyzes the Scottish rebellion of 1637 that occasioned its undoing.  The book yields rich new insights into the history of the reign  politics and religion  foreign policy and finance  the court and the counties  and attitudes and ideas. It provides a substantial reevaluation of the character of the king  the importance of parliaments  and the process of government without them. And it represents a critical new perspective on the origins of the political struggle that ended on the battlefields of the English Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953468436533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300065965","price":102.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300065961.jpg?v=1770852566","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-personal-rule-of-charles-i","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}