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Turncoats and Renegadoes : Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars

ISBN: 9780199575855 | 0199575851
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Turncoats and Renegadoesis the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and Ireland. The first half identifies side-changers among peers, MPs, army officers, and common soldiers, before reconstructing the chronological and regional patterns to their defections. The second half delivers a cultural history of treachery, by adopting a thematic approach to explore the social... MORE

Introduction
Part I: A profile of side-changing in England and Wales, 1642-1646
1. A turncoat aristocracy
2. 'Ambi-dexter' MPs
3. Military professionals: 'renegado' army officers
4. Popular allegiance and side-changing among rank and file soldiers
5. Chronological and regional patterns to side-changing
Part II: A cultural history of side-changing
6. Political oath-taking and the fear of treachery
7. The language of treachery in newsbooks and polemic
8. Honour, reputation, an... MORE

Andrew Hopper obtained his doctorate at the University of York in 1999. He then worked as a research fellow at the Universities of East Anglia and Birmingham before being appointed a 'new blood' lecturer in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester in 2006. He has written many articles on allegiance during the civil wars, and has recently edited the papers of the Hothams for the Camden Society. He is best known for his monograph 'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (2007).


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