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  • The Glorious Revolution

    1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty

    par Edward Vallance ...
    In 1688, a group of leading politicians invited the Dutch prince William of Orange over to England to challenge the rule of the catholic James II. When James's army deserted him he fled to France, leaving the throne open to William and Mary. During the following year a series of bills were passed which many believe marked the triumph of constitutional monarchy as a system of government. In this ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Remembering Early Modern Revolutions

    England, North America, France and Haiti

    Modifié par Edward Vallance ...
    Collections series Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
    Remembering Early Modern Revolutions is the first study of memory in relation to the major revolutions of the early modern period. Beginning with the English revolutions of the seventeenth century (1642–60 and 1688–9), this book also explores the American, French and Haitian revolutions.Through addressing these events collectively, this volume demonstrates the interconnectedness of these ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727

    par Edward Vallance ...
    Collections series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national ‘mood’. Covering addressing campaigns from the late-Cromwellian to the early Georgian period, the book explores the ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Renaissance Conscience

    Modifié par Harald E. Braun, Edward Vallance ...
    Collections series Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period.Represents one of the few modern studies exploring developments in scholastic and Renaissance notions of conscienceSynthesizes literary, theological and historical approachesPresents case studies from England and the ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Radical History Of Britain

    Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

    par Edward Vallance ...
    From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Divided Kingdom

    Ireland 1630-1800

    par S.J. Connolly ...
    Collections series Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
    For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political ... En savoir plus

    $58.39 CAD

  • The Common Freedom of the People

    John Lilburne and the English Revolution

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Princes In The Tower

    par Alison Weir ...
    The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines all the evidence - including that against the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

    par John Gibney ...
    A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first centuryFive centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland’s modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Restless Republic

    Britain without a Crown

    par Anna Keay ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEEleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Enchanted Europe:Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    par Euan Cameron ...
    Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites.For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Making of the English Working Class

    par E. P. Thompson ...
    Collections 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. ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD