Englands Troubles

Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423342
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Troubles written by Jonathan Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 political instability which contemporaries called 'our troubles'. The second was creative: its spectacular intellectual consequence in the English revolution. The third was reconstructive: the long restoration voyage toward safe haven from these terrifying storms. Driving the troubles were fears and passions animated by European religious and political developments. The result registered the impact upon fragile institutions of powerful beliefs. One feature of this analysis is its relationship of the history of events to that of ideas. Another is its consideration of these processes across the century as a whole. The most important is its restoration of this extraordinary English experience to its European context.

Author : England
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Troubles in India written by England and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.KI/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice Powell: an Historical Welsh Tale of England's Troubles written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : England
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's troubles in India, a brief account of the province of Bengal and its inhabitants, by the widow of an officer written by England and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice Powell, an historical Welsh tale of England's troubles written by Maurice Powell and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259852X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, military, religious, and administrative demands of the early modern state. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, Lundy, Holy Island and others emerge as important offshore outposts that long remained strange, separate, and perversely independent. England's islands were difficult to govern, and were prone to neglect, yet their strategic value far outweighed their size. Though vulnerable to foreign threats, their harbours and castles served as forward bases of English power. In civil war they were divided and contested, fought over and occupied. Jersey and the Isles of Scilly served as refuges for royalists on the run. Charles I was held on the Isle of Wight. External authority was sometimes light of touch, as English governments used the islands as fortresses, commercial assets, and political prisons. London was often puzzled by the linguistic differences, tangled histories, and special claims of island communities. Though increasingly integrated within the realm, the islands maintained challenging peculiarities and distinctive characteristics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and the insights of maritime, military, and legal scholarship, this is an original contribution to social, cultural, and constitutional history.

Author : J.G. Farrell
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170182
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubles written by J.G. Farrell and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, this darkly hilarious book about the Irish war for independence takes place in a crumbling hotel on Ireland's west coast, a place where madness and brutality have begun to reign. 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family's fortunes have suffered a spectacular decline. The hotel's hundreds of rooms are disintegrating on a grand scale; its few remaining guests thrive on rumors and games of whist; herds of cats have taken over the Imperial Bar and the upper stories; bamboo shoots threaten the foundations; and piglets frolic in the squash court. Meanwhile, the Major is captivated by the beautiful and bitter Sarah Devlin. As housekeeping disasters force him from room to room, outside the order of the British Empire also totters: there is unrest in the East, and in Ireland itself the mounting violence of "the troubles." Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.

Author : William Dugdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short View of the Late Troubles in England written by William Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 1681 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152610850X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain written by Graham Dawson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain, and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents. Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that 'unfinished business' from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain, and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation.

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874775
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English and Their History written by Robert Tombs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity. Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.