The Stuart Age

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of maps, figures and genealogical tables -- Preface to the fifth edition -- Abbreviations and short titles -- General introduction -- PART 1 Early Stuart England, 1603-1640 -- Introduction -- 1 The economy of early Stuart England -- The population and the economy -- The optimistic case -- The pessimistic case -- Conclusion -- 2 Society in early Stuart England -- Historiography: changing trends in writing on the social history of early modern England -- The achievements of social historians writing in the 1970s and 1980s -- From the 1990s onwards: social history with the politics put back -- Intellectual developments and popular beliefs -- Conclusion -- 3 The Elizabethan constitution -- Introduction -- The framework of government -- Stresses within the Elizabethan constitution: political and religious divisions and 'the public sphere' -- PART 2 The reigns of the early Stuarts, 1603-1640 -- Introduction -- 4 The survival of the Elizabethan constitution, 1603-1621 -- Introduction: King James VI and I - the changing views of historians -- James I and the succession -- Peace with Spain and the settlement in Ireland -- Puritans and Catholics -- James's first parliament, 1604-1610 -- Rule without parliament, 1610-1621 -- 5 The breakdown of the Elizabethan constitution, 1621-1640 -- Introduction: changing explanations for the unpopularity of Charles I by 1640 -- 1621-1624: the emergence of conflicting conspiracy theories -- The prerogative 'extended ... beyond its just symmetry', 1625-1629 -- The Personal Rule, 1629-1640 -- PART 3 The English Revolution, 1640-1660 -- Introduction -- 6 The making of the English Revolution, 1640-1649 -- Historiography: the causes of the English Revolution -- The constitutional crisis, November 1640-September 1641 I: Unity