Brainstorm: factors of Civil War 20 Nov'11 - 1 views

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  #1 Ian Schlom on 20 Nov 11

   

  So far I know that the players in the civil war were the gentry, the land and urban capitalists forming the bourgeois revolutionaries, the commoners and the peasantry were usually against the king but I guess they could be anywhere.

  
  

  Since I'm doing an historical study I'll look at the factors that lead to civil war. What are formative in making the factors for civil war are vested interests and ideology/mythology. The factors which made the vested interests, ideologies and mythologies are political, economic, and religious.

  
  

  
  
  1.  Politically, there was dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie with the State for economic reasons.  The gentry were dissatisfied with James I for in underestimating them as a powerful actor in English politics, didn't give them favours such as jobs and positions or much land.  The commoners and peasantry were dissatisfied with James I because he never made many public appearances with them.  He was a stranger to them, which must have increased their anxiety in him being a foreigner.
  
  
  2. Economically, England was undergoing a depression.  There was also a boom in industry and industrial production, and the urban bourgeoisie was on a rise.  Charles I kept asking for money to pay for unpopular wars.  The bourgeoisie couldn't fully develop with the taxation of Charles I and the feudal restrictions.
  
  
  3. Religiously, Puritans, seeing the Anglican church as too Catholic and not trying to achieve salvation, began to organise politically.  Anglicanism and Puritanism where somewhat contradictory.  Puritanism was the religion where "regeneration" was a personal process without involvement with a church, whereas Anglicanism, like Catholicism, depended on a church and, in Anglicanism, a monarch for salvation.  This could spur some religious conflict.  What will be certain is that since Puritans were organising themselves into classes and parties in Parliament, the religious conflicts would be present in the zones of political intrigue and economic transition (domination of certain system) or "dialectics" (historical dialectics or Marxist historical determinism).
  
  

  
  

  Brainstorm made 19th-20th November 2011.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><p>So far I know that the players in the civil war were the gentry, the land and urban capitalists forming the bourgeois revolutionaries, the commoners and the peasantry were usually against the king but I guess they could be anywhere.</p> <br /> <p>Since I'm doing an historical study I'll look at the factors that lead to civil war. What are formative in making the factors for civil war are vested interests and ideology/mythology. The factors which made the vested interests, ideologies and mythologies are political, economic, and religious.</p> <br /> <ol> <br /> <li> Politically, there was dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie with the State for economic reasons.  The gentry were dissatisfied with James I for in underestimating them as a powerful actor in English politics, didn't give them favours such as jobs and positions or much land.  The commoners and peasantry were dissatisfied with James I because he never made many public appearances with them.  He was a stranger to them, which must have increased their anxiety in him being a foreigner.</li> <br /> <li>Economically, England was undergoing a depression.  There was also a boom in industry and industrial production, and the urban bourgeoisie was on a rise.  Charles I kept asking for money to pay for unpopular wars.  The bourgeoisie couldn't fully develop with the taxation of Charles I and the feudal restrictions.</li> <br /> <li>Religiously, Puritans, seeing the Anglican church as too Catholic and not trying to achieve salvation, began to organise politically.  Anglicanism and Puritanism where somewhat contradictory.  Puritanism was the religion where "regeneration" was a personal process without involvement with a church, whereas Anglicanism, like Catholicism, depended on a church and, in Anglicanism, a monarch for salvation.  This could spur some religious conflict.  What will be certain is that since Puritans were organising themselves into classes and parties in Parliament, the religious conflicts would be present in the zones of political intrigue and economic transition (domination of certain system) or "dialectics" (historical dialectics or Marxist historical determinism).</li> <br /> </ol> <br /> <p>Brainstorm made 19th-20th November 2011.</p></div>

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