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Milton in Government by Robert Thomas Fallon 9780271026305
Booksplease Price: $92.46For students of the poet, Robert Fallon's Milton in Government fills a gap in modern knowledge of his life, the ten years he labored as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic. For... -
The Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries by Christopher Hill
Booksplease Price: $58.57The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "God's cause"-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom. While most accounts of this period... -
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden 9780199230815
Booksplease Price: $75.66In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair... -
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland - Essays in Honour of John Walter by Michael J. Braddick 9781783271719
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $192.51An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of... -
The Scots and the Union: Then and Now by Christopher Whatley
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $57.25This book offers key background reading for anyone interested in Scotland's 2014 referendum on independence. This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened... -
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives by Martyn Bennett
Booksplease Price: $251.43In this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell's involvement with Ireland, in particular his military... -
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives Martyn Bennett 9781837644377
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $78.31In this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell's involvement with Ireland, in particular his military... -
Loyalty And Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859894289
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $142.07This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of... -
Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815 by Derek Beales 9780521590907
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $208.61In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By 1750 there were at least 25,000 communities... -
England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context by Jonathan Scott 9780521411929
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $208.61In this path-breaking study, first published in 2000, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive: that experience of... -
Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe by Robert von Friedeburg 9781316510247
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $224.45This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course... -
Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe by Robert von Friedeburg 9781316649633
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $74.91This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course... -
Loyalty And Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War by Mark Stoyle 9780859895002
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.38This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of... -
John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation of Nonconformity Tim Cooper 9781032921259
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in shaping the nonconformist landscape of Restoration England. Yet despite having much in common, they found themselves... -
England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England 1625–1662 by Anthony Milton 9781316647295
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.28England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations... -
England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England 1625-1662 by Anthony Milton
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $78.62England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations... -
All Hail to the Archpriest: Confessional Conflict, Toleration, and the Politics of Publicity in Post-Reformation England by Peter Lake
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $81.29All Hail to the Archpriest revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England as the 'Archpriest controversy'. Peter Lake... -
How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 by Jonathan Scott
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $52.40A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible... -
Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621–1683 John Spurr 9781032922669
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, was a giant on the English political scene of the later seventeenth century. Despite taking up arms against the king in the Civil War, and his active... -
The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton 9780199677504
RRP: $32.53Booksplease Price: $26.75In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so enormous that it could be seen by... -
Hoax: The Catholic Plot that Never Was by Victor Stater
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.80The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain "Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. . . . As a work of... -
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642 by David Cressy 9780199280902
Booksplease Price: $78.25England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war. Focused on the years... -
West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State by Mark Stoyle 9780859896887
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.38West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book... -
Women of Fortune: Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England by Linda Levy Peck 9781107034020
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $54.03Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three... -
Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul D. Halliday 9780674064201
RRP: $90.20Booksplease Price: $62.85We call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul... -
The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and I by Clare Jackson 9781324094999
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $49.81History has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his... -
The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history"Hutton's book is intelligent, well documented, and stylish...