TY - BOOK AU - Fraser,Antonia TI - Cromwell: the Lord Protector SN - 0394470346 AV - DA426 .F84 PY - 1973/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Cromwell, Oliver, KW - Heads of state KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - History KW - Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 728-744) and index; Pt. I: The government of himself -- By birth a gentleman -- His own fields -- Growing to authority -- Grand remonstrance -- Pt. II: War and peace -- Noble and active Colonel Cromwell -- Ironsides -- Happy victory -- Falling out among themselves -- The game at cards -- The mischievous war -- Providence and necessity -- Pt. III: The Commonwealth of England -- All things become new -- Ireland : effusion of blood -- Scotland : the decision of the cause -- A settlement of a nation -- At the edge of prophecies -- Pt. IV: The Lord Protector -- Grandeur -- Briers and thorns -- At work in the world -- Jews and major-generals -- A royal sceptre -- Old Oliver, new ideas -- The great captain -- Cromwell's dust N2 - "Recounts the life, personality, and career of Oliver Cromwell as the Lord Protector of Great Britain from 1653-1658." ER -