England in Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth (Hodder Arnold Publication) - Softcover

"Authority and Conflict' was one of the most informed, balanced and - especially on the 1640s and 1650s - most enriching of early modern survey books. Building on the foundations of that book, Derek Hirst has now enhanced and broadened the account in ways that make 'England in Conflict' as much a book for the first decade of the next millennium as 'Authority and Conflict' was a book for the 1980s.' John Morrill, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge 'A superb book...This history of England explains the 'British Problem' with authority and conviction... a very rewarding 'must' for all those who seek to understand England, 1603-1660.' Jenny Wormald, C.E. Hodge Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Hilda's College, Oxford

This book, by one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, is a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict, England 1603-1658 (1986). Hirst has drawn on a decade of research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, puritanism, the church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity