A History of England: Personal monarchy: Henry VII to James II. 1485-1688
Author : James Franck Bright
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
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Author : James Franck Bright
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John E. Wills Jr.
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393253643
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage from Damascus and Cairo to Mecca. Walk the pungent streets of Amsterdam and enter the Rasp House, where vagrants, beggars, and petty criminals labored to produce powdered brazilwood for the dyeworks. Through these stories and many others, Wills paints a detailed picture of how the global connections of power, money, and belief were beginning to lend the world its modern form. "A vivid picture of life in 1688...filled with terrifying violence, frightening diseases...comfortingly familiar human kindnesses...and the intellectual achievements of Leibniz, Locke, and Newton."—Publishers Weekly
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Jurisprudence
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Author : Steven C. A. Pincus
Publisher : Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780300171433
Historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution--bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. He demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich narrative, based on new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689. James II's modernization program emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state, which emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution--not the French Revolution--the first truly modern revolution.--From publisher description.
Author : Parish Register Society, London
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Torphichen (Parish)
Publisher : Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by J. Skinner
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Church records and registers
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Author : New York State Library
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Libraries
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Page : 1862 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Public utilities
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Author : Public Archives of Canada
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Archives
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Author : William Mack
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Page : 2534 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Law
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