Wanton Troopers

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Wanton Troopers studies Buckinghamshire during the English Civil Wars, tracing how national political and religious divisions were experienced within one county. Beckett examines recruitment, garrisons, local government, taxation, troop movements and the burdens placed on civilians between 1640 and 1660. The book uses local records to show how allegiance could be complicated by property, community and survival, making the civil war a lived social conflict as well as a contest between armies.