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  • A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift

    by David Oakleaf ...
    Series series Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
    Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • The Making of the English Working Class

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the English working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitality. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment

    Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    by Roy Porter ...
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Restoration

    Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685

    by Tim Harris ...
    The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Puritanism & Revolution

    by Christopher Hill ...
    This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day. Each essay approaches the subject from a different angle, looking at aspects of the revolution - whether religious, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • James II (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Last Catholic King

    by David Womersley ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?'The short reign of James II is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history, ending in his exile after he unsuccessfully tried to convert England to Catholicism, a crisis that would haunt the monarchy for generations. Ultimately, David Womersley's biography shows, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)

    The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland

    by Ian McBride ...
    Series Book 4 - New Gill History of Ireland
    The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride's survey, the fourth in the New Gill History of Ireland series, seeks to correct that balance. At the same time it provides an accessible and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King James and the History of Homosexuality

    by Michael Young ...
    James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that question. More broadly, he shows that James's favourites had a negative impact within the royal family, at ... Read more

    $18.43 CAD

  • In Pursuit of Civility

    Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    Keith Thomas’s earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be “civilized” and how that condition ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

    Edited by Michael J. Braddick ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley

    by David W. Petegorsky ...
    Originally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Contents include: The Background of the Civil War; The Development of Radical Political Thought During the Civil War; The Digger Movement; The Political and Social Philosophy of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus