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Mark A. Kishlansky

Also known as: Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, Patricia O*Brien, Mark Kishlansky , Mark A. Kishlansky

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Dr. Mark A. Kishlansky was an American author and historian of seventeenth-century British politics. He was the Frank Baird, Jr. Professor of History at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kishlansky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his undergraduate degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1970. He proceeded to graduate study under David Underdown at Brown University, receiving his M.A. in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1977. His Ph.D. thesis was titled "The Emergence of Radical Politics in the English Revolution". From 1975 to 1991, he taught at the University of Chicago, successively as instructor and professor. From 1990 to 1991 he was a member of the Committee on Social Thought. He was a visiting professor at Northwestern University in 1983 and was the Mellon Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in 1990–91. In 1991 he became a professor at Harvard University and from 1998 to 2001 served as Associate Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was editor of the Journal of British Studies from 1984 to 1991 and editor-in-chief of History Compass from 2003 to 2009. Source: [Wikipedia](

The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled according to the duty and trust which lies upon them, for prevention of these great mischiefs and preservation of the safety of His Majesty's person, the peace of the Kingdom and the defense of the Parliament resolved and ordained that an Army be forthwith raised.

— from The Rise of the New Model Army, 1983

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The reign of Charles I witnessed some of the most dramatic and controversial developments in the course of English history including a full-scale civil war and the trial and public execution of a monarch by his subjects. Since then Charles has been variously regarded as a tragic martyr and as an evil tyrant who attempted to destroy the liberties of the English people. This book reconsiders the personality of Charles and the effects of his decisions as ruler. It questions the responsibility Charles should bear for the disasters of his reign and examines contemporary and modern portrayals of Charles's reign, the king's military leadership, the context and prelude to his execution, and his status as a martyr king in the 1650s and beyond.

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