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Book Devil Land

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  • Author : Clare Jackson
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2021-09-30
  • ISBN : 0141984589
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Devil Land written by Clare Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

Book Reports

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  • Author : United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 996 pages

Download or read book Reports written by United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1638 1670

Download or read book 1638 1670 written by Sidney Perley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fifth Monarchy Men

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  • Author : Bernard Capp
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2012-03-15
  • ISBN : 0571286860
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Fifth Monarchy Men written by Bernard Capp and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fifth Monarchy Men (Faber, 1972), Professor Capp places the movement in the context of the rise of millenarian thought in Europe from the Reformation and its rapid spread in England during the Civil Wars. For many radicals, the execution of King Charles cleared the way for King Jesus, and heralded the establishment of a revolutionary millennium. The apparent apostasy of the Rump Parliament and Oliver Cromwell channelled part of the wave of millenarian feeling into the formation of a specific sect. This first comprehensive study of the Fifth Monarchists movement traces its history and examines its social, political, legal and religious proposals. Although it had the support of some gentry and army officers, it was essentially an urban movement of artisans, apprentices, and even labourers, reaching lower down the social scale than any contemporary radical movement, with the possible exception of the Diggers. Professor Capp discusses its structure, and its relationship to other revolutionary sects, notably the Levellers and Quakers. He analyses the social, political and economic programmes of the self-styled saints which, though revolutionary, were elitist rather than equalitarian. The Fifth Monarchists' militant foreign policy was shaped by the twofold consideration of exporting the revolution and of strengthening the position of English trade. Their much-derided call for the re-establishment of the Mosaic Code is the culmination of a long tradition of such thinking amongst Puritan and earlier writers. Appendices provide biographies of almost 280 Fifth Monarchists and the location of all known Fifth Monarchist groups.

Book United States Code

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  • Author : United States
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1302 pages

Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.

Book Diary of Thomas Burton  4

Download or read book Diary of Thomas Burton 4 written by Thomas Burton and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Symposium on Wheat Yield Potential

Download or read book International Symposium on Wheat Yield Potential written by Reynolds, M.P. and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Descendants of Mathew Martine Forde Vol I Generations 1 8   Unabridged With Sources

Download or read book The Descendants of Mathew Martine Forde Vol I Generations 1 8 Unabridged With Sources written by and published by Scott William Barker. This book was released on with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World War I  5 volumes

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  • Author : Spencer C. Tucker
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 1851099654
  • Pages : 2532 pages

Download or read book World War I 5 volumes written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 2532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering exhaustive coverage, detailed analyses, and the latest historical interpretations of events, this expansive, five-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and detailed reference source on the First World War available today. One hundred years after the beginning of World War I in 1914, this conflict still stands as perhaps the most important event of the 20th century. World War I toppled all of the existing empires at the time, transformed the Middle East, and vaulted the United States to becoming the world's leading economic power. Its effects were profound and lasting—and included outcomes that led to World War II. This multivolume encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging examination of World War I that covers all of the important battles; key individuals, both civilian and military; weapons and technologies; and diplomatic, social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. Suitable as a reference tool for high school and undergraduate students as well as faculty members and graduate-level researchers, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection offers accessible, in-depth information and up-to-date analyses in a format that lends itself to quick and easy use. The set comprises alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries accompanied by further reading selections as well as a comprehensive bibliography. A fifth volume provides chronologically arranged documents and an A–Z index.

Book The English Historical Review

Download or read book The English Historical Review written by Mandell Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick  1903

Download or read book The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick 1903 written by New Brunswick and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Clarke Papers  Volume 27

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  • Author : William Clarke
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-07-10
  • ISBN : 9780521862677
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Clarke Papers Volume 27 written by William Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their publication in the Camden Series over 100 years ago, Sir Charles Firth's editions of the papers and New Model Army secretary William Clarke, Clarke Papers I-IV (1891-1901), have formed a fundamental source for students of the English Civil War and Interregnum, 1642-1660. This volume offers a further selection, deciphered for the first time since they were written by Frances Henderson, from the many documents which Clarke disguised in one of the rudimentary shorthand systems of his day. The new material consists mainly of the political intelligence which was being passed at every level from informed sources in London and elsewhere to English army headquarters in Scotland, where Clarke was based during the 1650s. The text is fully annotated. Appendices include a list of correspondents identified by Clarke in shorthand letters otherwise written en clair, and a survey of the use of shorthand in early seventeenth-century England.

Book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Following the Levellers  Volume Two

Download or read book Following the Levellers Volume Two written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers. Far from ending in the 1649 troop revolts, the Leveller impact continued in the Interregnum climacterics of 1653 and 1659-60, times of acute political and religious unsettlement. Indeed, Leveller ideas resurfaced in Restoration political and religious crises in 1678-83 and again in 1687-8 and flourished in populations that once followed the Levellers. Analysis of London, army, and county Levellers reveals connections to subsequent outbursts of unrest. Sectarian communities in London’s peripheral neighbourhoods and nearby counties sustained the Leveller ethos, and ordinary people like those who followed the Levellers remained active in petitioning and protest about political and religious liberties through the Glorious Revolution.

Book The Register of Stourpaine  Dorset

Download or read book The Register of Stourpaine Dorset written by Stourpaine (England : Parish) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dorset Records

Download or read book Dorset Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

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  • Author : Parish Register Society, London
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Parish Register Society, London and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: