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Why Was Charles I Executed?(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Contemporary Review  |  Date: 3/22/2007

Why Was Charles I Executed? Clive Holmes. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 244 pages. ISBN 1-85285-282-8. This book's format--a series of eight questions--looks at first like headings for essay topics. In the event they are invitations for readers to reconsider the history of the 1640s and 1650s. At issue are the differing views among historians regarding 'the competing views of the structure of society, of national identity and political culture, [and] of the role ...

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