The Bishops Wars: Charles I's Campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640.(Brief Article)

The Historian | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

By Mark Charles Fissel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 336. $69.95.)

With the growing interest in British history, especially the short term causes of what used to be called the English Civil War, this monograph appears at an opportune moment. Mark Fissel sees the two wars that Charles I fought against the Scots from 1638-40, as critical in the collapse of royal government, and argues that "Charles failed militarily because he was a failure as a politician." Such an assertion is not very original. Historians such as Conrad Russell, Maurice Lee, ...

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