Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654
Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654
Author: Bulstrode Whitelocke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781433097300
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781433097300
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Devil-Land
Author: Clare Jackson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141984589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
*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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141984589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
*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.
A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654
Author: Bulstrode Whitlocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Power of Kings
Author: Paul Kléber Monod
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300090666
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300090666
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.
“The” Cambridge Modern History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
Author: Nicholas Adams
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271065206
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper campaign led by one of the most noted editors of the day, Torgny Segerstedt. Famous for his determined opposition to National Socialism, he also took a principled stand against the undermining of urban tradition in Gothenburg. Gothenburg’s problems with modern public architecture, though clamorous and publicized throughout Sweden, were by no means unique. In Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg, Nicholas Adams places Asplund’s building in the wider context of public architecture between the wars, setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund’s conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s. Today, looking at the building in the broadest of contexts, we can appreciate the richness of this exquisite work of architecture. This book recaptures the complex magic of its creation and the fascinating controversy of its completed form.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271065206
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper campaign led by one of the most noted editors of the day, Torgny Segerstedt. Famous for his determined opposition to National Socialism, he also took a principled stand against the undermining of urban tradition in Gothenburg. Gothenburg’s problems with modern public architecture, though clamorous and publicized throughout Sweden, were by no means unique. In Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg, Nicholas Adams places Asplund’s building in the wider context of public architecture between the wars, setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund’s conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s. Today, looking at the building in the broadest of contexts, we can appreciate the richness of this exquisite work of architecture. This book recaptures the complex magic of its creation and the fascinating controversy of its completed form.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Institution
Author: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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