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  • Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707

    by Karin Bowie ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    In early modern Scotland, religious and constitutional tensions created by Protestant reform and regal union stimulated the expression and regulation of opinion at large. Karin Bowie explores the rising prominence and changing dynamics of Scottish opinion politics in this tumultuous period. Assessing protestations, petitions, oaths, and oral and written modes of public communication, she addresses ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Early Modern Political Petitioning and Public Engagement in Scotland, Britain and Scandinavia, c.1550-1795

    Edited by Karin Bowie, Thomas Munck ...
    This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political petitioning addressed to assemblies or rulers.A petition used to be a humble means of asking a favour, but in the early modern period, petitioning became more assertive and participative. This book shows how this contrasted to ordinary petitioning, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    A New History of the English Civil Wars

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    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Revolution

    The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

    by Tim Harris ...
    To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Revolution brilliantly captures the sense that this was a great turning point in Britain's history, but ... Read more

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  • The Levellers

    Radical political thought in the English Revolution

    by Rachel Foxley ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

    $46.39 CAD

  • English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century

    by Michael Hicks ...
    English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history. Michael Hicks explores the standards, values and principles that motivated contemporary politicians, and the aspirations and interests of both dukes and peasants alike.Hicks argues that the Wars of the ... Read more

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  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    by Christopher W. Brooks ...
    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... Read more

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  • The Common Freedom of the People

    John Lilburne and the English Revolution

    by Michael Braddick ...
    The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought ... Read more

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  • The Nature of the English Revolution

    by John Morrill ...
    John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English ... Read more

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