HIST 381AEnglish Civil Wars

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This course explores the period between the 1620s and 1660s, when England protested taxation, executed the king, experimented with republicanism, slid into military dictatorship, and then restored the monarchy. The series of conflicts which made up the English Civil Wars were ostensibly about political authority -- King or Parliament? -- but encompassed much more than that: religion, class, foreign policy, imperial expansion. One unit of the course will involve a historical role-playing game.