The Trials Of Charles The First

Author : K.J. Kesselring
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 146040579X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents written by K.J. Kesselring and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and other high crimes against his people. Not only did the revolutionary tribunal find him guilty and order his death, but its masters then abolished monarchy itself and embarked on a bold (though short-lived) republican experiment. The event was a landmark in legal history. The trial and execution of King Charles marked a watershed in English politics and political theory and thus also affected subsequent developments in those parts of the world colonized by the British. This book presents a selection of contemporaries’ accounts of the king’s trial and their reactions to it, as well as a report of the trial of the king’s own judges once the wheel of fortune turned and monarchy was restored. It uses the words of people directly involved to offer insight into the causes and consequences of these momentous events.

Author : Charles I (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Charles the First, and of Some of the Regicides written by Charles I (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Lagomarsino
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 161168059X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Charles I written by David Lagomarsino and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts of the trial and execution of Charles I portray a revolutionary moment in English history

Author : Cicely Veronica Wedgwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585790333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Coffin for King Charles written by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Laughland
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781906165000
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Political Trials written by John Laughland and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a formidable and well-documented counterblast to a developing modern orthodoxy, expressing a point of view that many readers will not even have suspected existed, let alone read."--Anthony Daniels, Spectator "A useful and controversial contribution to the debate about victor's justice, and a valuable warning that international war crimes tribunals need to operate with precision and care."--Jonathan Steele, Guardian The rapid development of the use of international courts and tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and other crimes against humanity has been welcomed by most people, because they think that the establishment of international tribunals and courts to try notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of Political Trials, John Laughland takes a very different and controversial view, namely that political trials are inherently against the rule of law and almost always involve the abuse of process, as well as being seriously hypocritical. By means of detailed consideration of the trials of figures as disparate as Charles I, Louis XVI, Erich Honecker and Saddam Hussein, Laughland shows that the guilt of the accused has always been assumed in advance, that the judges are never impartial, that the process is always unfair and biased in favor of the prosecution, that the defense is not permitted to use all the arguments at its disposal, and that often the accusers have done exactly what they accuse the defence of having done. All the trials he recounts were marked by arbitrariness and injustice, often gross injustice. Although the chapters are short and easy to read, they are the fruit of formidable erudition and wide reading. The general reader will be forced by this book to re-examine the ideas on this subject, and will be much less sanguine about the possibility of bringing dictators and other leaders to genuine justice. John Laughland lives in Bath and is an author, journalist, and has been a university lecturer in France. He has published The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea (Time Warner Paperbacks) and has written for the Spectator, he Economist, and The New York Times . Table of Contents Introduction The Trial of Charles I and the Last Judgement The Trial of Louis XVI and the Terror War Guilt after World War I Defeat in the Dock: the Riom Trial Justice as Purge: Marshal Peacute;tain faces his Accusers Treachery on Trial: the Case of Vidkun Quisling Nuremberg : Making War Illegal Creating Legitimacy: the Trial of Marshal Antonescu Ethnic Cleansing and National Cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 19451947 Peoplers"s Justice in Liberated Hungary From Mass Execution to Amnesty and Pardon: Postwar Trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece Politics as Conspiracy: the Tokyo Trials The Greek Colonels, the Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine Generals: Transitional Justice, 19752007 Revolution Returns: the Trial of Nicolae Ceausescu A State on Trial: Erich Honecker in Moabit Jean Kambanda, Convicted without Trial Kosovo and the New World Order: the Trial of Slobodan Miloscaron;evic Regime Change and the Trial of Saddam Hussein Conclusion Notes Bibliography and Further Reading Index

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375067895
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Charles the First, and of Some of the Regicides written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Author : C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781848856882
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A King Condemned written by C. V. Wedgwood and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Charles I, defined by religious conflict, a titanic power struggle with Parliament, and culminating in the English Civil Wars, the execution of the king, and the brief abolition of the monarchy, was one of the most turbulent in English history. Six years after the First Civil War began, and following Charles’ support for the failed Royalist uprising of the Second Civil War, an act of Parliament was passed that produced something unprecedented in the history of England: the trial of an English king on a capital charge. There followed ten extraordinary weeks that finally drew to a dark end on January 30, 1649, when Charles was beheaded in Whitehall. In this acclaimed account, C. V. Wedgwood recreates the dramatic events of the trial and Charles’s final days, to vividly bring to life the main actors in this tragic and compelling story

Author : Charles I (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book King Charles the First: an historical tragedy. Written in imitation of Shakespear, etc. [By William Havard.] written by Charles I (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135177865X
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Charles I written by Mark Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles I provides a detailed overview of Charles Stuart, placing his reign firmly within the wider context of this turbulent period and examining the nature of one of the most complex monarchs in British history. The book is organised chronologically, beginning in 1600 and covering Charles’ early life, his first difficulties with his parliaments, the Personal Rule, the outbreak of Civil War, and his trial and eventual execution in 1649. Interwoven with historiography, the book emphasises the impact of Charles’ challenging inheritance on his early years as king and explores the transition from his original championing of international Protestantism to his later vision of a strong and centralised monarchy influenced by continental models, which eventually provoked rebellion and civil war across his three kingdoms. This study brings to light the mass of contradictions within Charles’ nature and his unusual approach to monarchy, resulting in his unrivaled status as the only English king to have been tried and executed by his own subjects. Offering a fresh approach to this significant reign and the fascinating character that held it, Charles I is the perfect book for students of early modern Britain and the English Civil War.

Author : Charles Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409127
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killers of the King written by Charles Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.