Interregnum The People S Republic Of Britain

Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 000828203X

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Interregnum: the People's Republic of Britain by Anna Keay Pdf

1649. King Charles I had been executed. A quarter of a million had died in the Second English Civil War. Two hundred great houses stood in ruins, with hundreds of villages and towns left battered and broken. The monarchy, the House of Lords and the Church of England were all abruptly abolished. What next? This is the story of 1649 to 1660, the eleven years when England, Wales and later Scotland and Ireland were governed as a republic. In the midst of unprecedented tumult, what was life like for the people of England - both the winners and the losers? Historian Anna Keay explores the decade through the lives of nine people, from Oliver Cromwell, upon whose personality the entire fate of England was said to hinge, through to the likes of John Bradshaw, a relatively minor Cheshire lawyer who was appointed lord president of the high court of justice established to try the King - largely because all the more senior judges refused the task. He would become the only Englishman ever to hand down a sentence of death upon his sovereign. Telling a rich and vivid history in matching style, this is a brilliant new take on the most extraordinary decade in English history, and what happened when a conservative people tried revolution.

Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008282042

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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.

Author : Jason McElligott,David L. Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719081610

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Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum by Jason McElligott,David L. Smith Pdf

There has long been an unfortunate tendency to dismiss those who were loyal to the Stuarts as, in the immortal words of 1066 and all That, `wrong but romantic', or as the products of unthinking political and religious reaction. In recent years, scholars have begun to explore the phenomenon of royalism during the 1640s. Yet we still know very little about those who were loyal to Charles II during the 1650s. This volume brings together essays by established and emerging historians and literary scholars in Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia, sketching the difficulties, complexities, and nuances of the Royalist experience during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. It examines women, religion, print-culture, literature, the politics of exile, and the nature and extent of royalist networks in England. This ambitious and innovative book sheds important new light on the experience of those who were loyal to the Stuarts. It argues for the need to re-orientate, re-invigorate and re-invent the study of those who detested Cromwell and his `rebels'; and it forces us to examine the decade as a whole from a new perspective. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the culture, history or literature of the English Revolution.

Author : Caroline Boswell
Publisher : Studies in Early Modern Cultur
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270454

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Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England by Caroline Boswell Pdf

How did ordinary English men and women respond to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creation of a republic, and the rise of the Cromwellian Protectorate? This book uncovers grassroots responses to the tangible consequences of revolution, delving into everyday practices, social interactions, and power struggles as they intersected with the macro-politics of regime change. Tussles at local alehouses, encounters with excise collectors in the high street, and contests over authority at the marketplace reveal how national politics were felt across the most ordinary of activities. Using a series of case studies from counties, boroughs, and the London metropolis, Boswell argues that factional discourses and shifting power relations complicated social interaction. Localized disaffection was broadcast in newsbooks, pamphlets, and broadsides, shaping political rhetoric that refashioned grassroots grievances to promote royalist desires. By uniting disparate people who were alienated by the policies of interregnum regimes, this literature helped to create the spectre of a unified, royalist commons that materialized in the months leading up to Charles II's Restoration. Such agitation - from disaffected mutters to ritualistic violence against officials - informed the broad political culture that shaped debates over governance during one of the most volatile decades in British history. CAROLINE BOSWELL is Associate Professor in History at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Author : Edward Sexby,Silius Titus,William Allen (Adjutant-general)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1689
Category : Despotism
ISBN : UCSD:31822035069681

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Killing No Murder by Edward Sexby,Silius Titus,William Allen (Adjutant-general) Pdf

Author : Martin Albers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137565679

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Britain, France, West Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1969–1982 by Martin Albers Pdf

This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of the three biggest states of Western Europe – Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany – helped China reintegrate into the international community in the 1970s. Against the background of the Cold War, the end of Maoism, and the emergence of globalization, the governments in Bonn, Paris and London had to find ways of dealing with Europe’s declining influence and promote their own national interests in Asia. Based on newly declassified government files, readers will find such sources invaluable in understanding the argument that, despite pursuing very different policies, the three governments supported a rapid expansion of peaceful exchange between the People’s Republic and Europe and substantially contributed to the success of Beijing's reform policy.

Author : Christopher Atwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004531291

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Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931 by Christopher Atwood Pdf

Based on previously unopened Mongolian archives, Young Mongols and Vigilantes is a vivid narrative of the underground world of pan-Mongolist agitation in Inner Mongolia that offers new insight into the social origins and international connections of Mongol nationalism in China. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004126077).

Author : Paul Lay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781852576

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Providence Lost by Paul Lay Pdf

'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-Generals – bureaucrats with a penchant for closing alehouses – backfires spectacularly. Sectarianism and fundamentalism run riot. Radicals and royalists join together in conspiracy. The only way out seems to be a return to a Parliament presided over by a king. But will Cromwell accept the crown? Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government: he brings the febrile world of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to life, providing vivid portraits of the extraordinary individuals who inhabited it and capturing its dissonant cacophony of political and religious voices. ***************** Reviews: 'Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade' John Adamson, The Times. 'Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence' Jessie Childs, Guardian.

Author : Austin Woolrych
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0191542008

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Britain in Revolution by Austin Woolrych Pdf

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.

Author : J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574986

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The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 by J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer Pdf

A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135356170

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The Territories of the People's Republic of China by Europa Publications Pdf

A complete guide to the People's Republic of China. This indispensable survey contains over 250 pages of well-researched, up-to-date, impartial data on the economy, geography and political situation to provide a complete picture of the area. An introductory section contains invaluable background material on the country as a whole, including: * Detailed essays on Economic Regionalism in the People's Republic of China and Governing China: Unity, Control, Decentralization and Global Integration * A chronology of the country, from the period of the Zhou dynasty to the official campaign to impose stricter controls on the internet * Statistics of major demographic and economic indicators * Details of the national government. Individual chapters on each of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities include: * A map of the area, with geographical and historical information * An economic survey presenting the latest available statistics on gross regional product, transport, agriculture, mining, industry, trade, foreign investment and employment * A directory of the names and addresses of leading administrative and political officials. The book has a full index, which includes a listing of alternative names for regions and capital cities.

Author : William F. S. Miles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803267725

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Scars of Partition by William F. S. Miles Pdf

Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and behind these inherited borders in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean. Scars of Partition draws on political science, anthropology, history, and geography to examine six cases of indigenous, indentured, and enslaved peoples partitioned by colonialism in West Africa, West Indies, South Pacific, Southeast Asia, South India, and the Indian Ocean. William F. S. Miles demonstrates that sovereign nations throughout the developing world, despite basic differences in culture, geography, and politics, still bear the underlying imprint of their colonial pasts. Disentangling and appreciating these embedded colonial legacies is critical to achieving full decolonization—particularly in their borderlands.

Author : Stanford Lehmberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134415281

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A History of the Peoples of the British Isles: From Prehistoric Times to 1688 by Stanford Lehmberg Pdf

The three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples. The authors trace the course of social, economic, cultural and political history from prehistoric times to the present, analyzing the relationships, differences and similarities of the four areas. Covering British history from prehistoric times to 1688, Volume I's main themes include: * the development of prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain * discussions of family and class structures * Medieval British history * the Stuart and Tudor leaderships * the arts and intellectual developments from 1485 to 1688. Presenting a wealth of material on themes such as women's history, the family, religion, intellectual history, society, politics, and the arts, these volumes are an important resource for all students of the political and cultural heritage of the British Isles.

Author : Ken MacMillan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487588489

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Death and Disorder by Ken MacMillan Pdf

This innovative textbook recounts famous and infamous incidents of death and disorder in early modern England, including the executions of St. Thomas More and Mary Queen of Scots and the untimely end of thousands of others.

Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857594

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The English Civil Wars by Blair Worden Pdf

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.