Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0007394713
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.
Author : Oliver Cromwell
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1841
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Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780618181773
Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.
Author : Walter A. McDougall
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1191 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0061899844
This powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part on the unique American character, which has shaped so many historic events. In the first of a projected three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter A. McDougall argues that the creation of the United States is the central event in the last four hundred years of world history. Freedom Just Around the Corner masterfully chronicles the earliest years of this nation, revealing that the genius behind the success of the United States is not based on the works and ideas of one person, but rather on the complex, irrepressible American spirit. A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise..., Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877, and Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children. “The chapter on the framing of the Constitution should be required reading ... Walter McDougall is a historian with a masterful grasp of his subject.” — Claude Crowley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0297857592
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300257457
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)--the only English commoner to become the overall head of state--is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction. Cromwell, pursuing his devotion to God and cementing his Puritan support base, quickly transformed from obscure provincial to military victor. At the end of the first English Civil War, he was poised to take power. Hutton reveals a man who was both genuine in his faith and deliberate in his dishonesty--and uncovers the inner workings of the man who has puzzled biographers for centuries.
Author : John Miller
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1472107624
Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of detail and rather to maintain a grasp of the big picture. Although the English Civil War is usually seen, in England at least, as a conflict between two sides, it involved the Scots, the Irish and the army and the people of England, especially London. At some points, events occurred and perspectives changed with such disorienting rapidity that even those who lived through these events were confused as to where they stood in relation to one another. As the 1640s wore on, events unfolded in ways which the participants had not expected and in many cases did not want. Hindsight might suggest that everything led logically to the trial and execution of the king, but these were in fact highly improbable outcomes. Since the 1980s, a 'three kingdoms' approach has become almost compulsory, but Miller's focus is unashamedly on England. Events in Scotland and Ireland are covered only insofar as they had an impact on events in England.
Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
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Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1698
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Author : Alan MacDonald
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781407111896
Everybody knows that Oliver Cromwell gave King Charles I the chop and clobbered the Cavaliers with his Roundheads. This book helps readers discover such facts as how Oliver canceled Christmas and banned swearing, and that he was actually hanged and beheaded - after he had already died.
