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Author : James Franck Bright
Release : 1887
Genre : Great Britain
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Book Synopsis A History of England: Personal monarchy: Henry VII to James II. 1485-1688 by : James Franck Bright
Download or read book A History of England: Personal monarchy: Henry VII to James II. 1485-1688 written by James Franck Bright. This book was released on 1887. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John E. Wills Jr.
Release : 2002-01-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis 1688: A Global History by : John E. Wills Jr.
Download or read book 1688: A Global History written by John E. Wills Jr.. This book was released on 2002-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage from Damascus and Cairo to Mecca. Walk the pungent streets of Amsterdam and enter the Rasp House, where vagrants, beggars, and petty criminals labored to produce powdered brazilwood for the dyeworks. Through these stories and many others, Wills paints a detailed picture of how the global connections of power, money, and belief were beginning to lend the world its modern form. "A vivid picture of life in 1688...filled with terrifying violence, frightening diseases...comfortingly familiar human kindnesses...and the intellectual achievements of Leibniz, Locke, and Newton."—Publishers Weekly
Author : Steven C. A. Pincus
Release : 2009
Genre : Great Britain
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Book Synopsis 1688 by : Steven C. A. Pincus
Download or read book 1688 written by Steven C. A. Pincus. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution--bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. He demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich narrative, based on new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688-1689. James II's modernization program emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state, which emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution--not the French Revolution--the first truly modern revolution.--From publisher description.
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Release : 1878
Genre : Jurisprudence
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Book Synopsis S-Zypaeus. 1878 by : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Author : Parish Register Society, London
Release : 1904
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Book Synopsis Publications by : Parish Register Society, London
Download or read book Publications written by Parish Register Society, London. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
