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Book The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution  1625 1660

Download or read book The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution 1625 1660 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First

Download or read book Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First written by John Forster and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charles I s Killers in America

Download or read book Charles I s Killers in America written by Matthew Jenkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men-Edward Whalley and William Goffe-and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there. With fascinating insights into the governance of the American colonies in the seventeenth century, and how a network of colonists protected the regicides, Matthew Jenkinson overturns the enduring theory that Charles II unrelentingly sought revenge for the murder of his father. Charles I's Killers in America also illuminates the regicides' afterlives, with conclusions that have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Anglo-American political and cultural relations. Novels, histories, poems, plays, paintings, and illustrations featuring the fugitives were created against the backdrop of America's revolutionary strides towards independence and its forging of a distinctive national identity. The history of the 'king-killers' was distorted and embellished as they were presented as folk heroes and early champions of liberty, protected by proto-revolutionaries fighting against English tyranny. Jenkinson rewrites this once-ubiquitous and misleading historical orthodoxy, to reveal a far more subtle and compelling picture of the regicides on the run.

Book Britain in Revolution

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  • Author : Austin Woolrych
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2002-11-14
  • ISBN : 9780191542008
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book Britain in Revolution written by Austin Woolrych and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decades of the seventeenth century England, Scotland, and Ireland were convulsed by political upheaval and wracked by rebellion and civil war. The Stuart monarchy was in abeyance for twenty years in all three kingdoms, and Charles I famously met his death on the scaffold. Austin Woolrych breathes life back into the story of these years, the sweep of his prose buttressed by the authority of a lifetime's scholarship. He captures the drama and the passion, the momentum of events and the force of contingency. He brilliantly interweaves the history of the three kingdoms and their peoples, gripping the reader with the fast-paced yet always balanced story.

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1860
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 920 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1860
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 592 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 All Deliberate Speed

Download or read book All Deliberate Speed written by Charles J. Ogletree and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard Law School professor examines the impact that Brown v. Board of Education has had on his family, citing historical figures, while revealing how the reforms promised by the case were systematically undermined.

Book The Presumption of Guilt

Download or read book The Presumption of Guilt written by Charles Ogletree and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all. Working from years of research and based on his own classes and experiences with law enforcement, the author illuminates the steps needed to embark on the long journey toward racial and legal equality for all Americans.

Book A Short History of the English People

Download or read book A Short History of the English People written by John Richard Green and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First

Download or read book Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First written by John Forster and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Athenaeum

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1860
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 948 pages

Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Friend

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  • Release : 1861
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book The Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Warlord

Download or read book American Warlord written by Johnny Dwyer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.

Book The Book of Days

Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Novels of Daniel Defoe  Part I Vol 4

Download or read book The Novels of Daniel Defoe Part I Vol 4 written by W R Owens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe is known as the father of the English novel. This is the modern critical edition of Defoe's novels. It brings together all three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. The editorial material includes an introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index in volume 10.