Author: James Welwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceeding the Revolution in 1688. By James Welwood ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Compleat Index
Author: James Welwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Auction catalogues of books
Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Bookseller's catalogues
Author: William Brough (bookseller.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, 1840-1870
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The Last Royal Rebel
Author: Anna Keay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140884608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140884608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
Reading References for English History
Author: Henry Lewin Cannon
Publisher: Boston Ginn [1910]
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher: Boston Ginn [1910]
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Sources of English History of the Seventeenth Century, 1603-1689
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Christian Monitors
Author: Brent Sirota
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300199279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
div This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire—all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence.”/DIV
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300199279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
div This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire—all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence.”/DIV
The History of the Works of the Learned, Or, An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Catalogue des livres de ... A.M.H. Boulard
Author: Antoine Marie H. Boulard
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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