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  • Gypsies

    An English History

    par David Cressy ...
    Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Charles I and the People of England

    par David Cressy ...
    The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also the ... En savoir plus

    $11.59 CAD

  • Gunpowder Plots

    A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night

    par Antonia Fraser, Brenda Buchanan, David Cannadine, David Cressy, Justin Champion, Mike Jay, Pauline Croft ...
    400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.This book draws on the expertise of different writers to bring to life the immense implications of the Plot and the strange way ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Saltpeter

    The Mother of Gunpowder

    par David Cressy ...
    This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung and urine, it provided the heart or 'mother' of gunpowder, without which no musket or cannon could ... En savoir plus

    $36.59 CAD

  • England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles

    par David Cressy ...
    England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Society and Culture in Early Modern England

    par David Cressy ...
    Collections series Variorum Collected Studies
    The common theme of this selection of articles by David Cressy, published over the last twenty-five years, is the linkage of elite and popular culture and the participation of ordinary people in the central events of their age. The collection also traces a development in historical style and method, from quantitative applications using statistics to qualitative telling of tales. Seven essays under ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea

    par David Cressy ...
    Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Religion and Society in Early Modern England

    A Sourcebook

    Modifié par David Cressy, Lori Anne Ferrell ...
    Religion and Society in Early Modern England is a thorough sourcebook covering interplay between religion, politics, society, and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods.It covers the crucial topics of the Reformation through narratives, reports, literary works, orthodox and unorthodox religious writing, institutional church documents, and parliamentary proceedings. Helpful introductions ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Talk

    Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England

    par David Cressy ...
    Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and characters previously unknown to history, David Cressy explores ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Talk

    Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England

    par David Cressy ...
    Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and characters previously unknown to history, David Cressy explores ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Stoke Field

    The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses

    par David Baldwin ...
    The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The forces of the first Tudor king Henry VII confronted the rebel army of the pretender Lambert Simnel and his commander the Earl of Lincoln. Henry's victory over the Yorkists was decisive - it confirmed the crown to the House of Tudor for more than a century. David ... En savoir plus

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