Britain in revolution, 1625-1660 /
This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decad...
| Основен автор: | Woolrych, Austin, 1918- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=150003 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Britain in revolution, 1625-1660. |
| Резюме: |
This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decades of the seventeenth century England, Scotland, and Ireland were convulsed by political upheaval and wracked by rebellion and civil war. The Stuart monarchy was in abeyance for twenty years in all three kingdoms, and Charles I famously met his death on the scaffold. Austin Woolrych breathes life back into the story of these years, the sweep of his prose buttressed by the authority of a lifetime's scholarship. He captures the drama and the passion, the momentum of events and the force of contingency. He brilliantly interweaves the history of the three kingdoms and their peoples, gripping the reader with the fast-paced yet always balanced story. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 814 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1423766334 9781423766339 1280444983 9781280444982 0191542008 9780191542008 |