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Author:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.

Title:

Rebellion : the history of England, from James I to the Glorious Revolution / Peter Ackroyd.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Thomas Dunne BooksSt. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Stuart, House of.

Other Authors:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- History of England. 3, Civil war.

Other Titles:

Civil war

Notes:

First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title The history of England. Rebellion is volume 3, which, in the Macmillan set, was entitled Civil war. Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-479) and index.

Contents:

A new Solomon -- The plot -- The beacons -- The god of money -- The angel -- The vapours -- What news? -- A Bohemian tragedy -- The Spanish travellers -- An interlude -- Vivat Rex -- A fall from grace -- Take that slime away -- I am the man -- The crack of doom -- The shrimp -- Sudden flashings -- Venture all -- A great and dangerous treason -- Madness and fury -- A world of change -- Worse and worse news -- A world of mischief -- Neither hot nor cold -- The gates of Hell -- The women of war -- The face of God -- The mansion of liberty -- A game to play -- To kill a king -- This house to be let -- Fear and trembling -- Healing and settling -- Is it possible? -- The young gentleman -- Oh, prodigious change! -- On the road -- To rise and piss -- And not dead yet? -- The true force -- Hot news -- New infirmities -- Or at the Cock? -- Noise rhymes to noise -- The Protestant wind.

Summary:

Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and the deposition and exile of James II.

ISBN:

1250003636 (hardcover)
9781250003638 (hardcover) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)865158132

LCCN:

2014026045

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