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Documents and Debates eBook Series

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  • Politics, Religion and Society in England 1640-1660

    by David Gregg, Howard Tomlinson ...
    Series series Documents and Debates
    Politics, Religion and Society in Revolutionary England 1640-1660 goes beneath the surface of English society in the turbulent years of civil war and interregnum. The authors draw upon a fascinating array of contemporary writings to provide revealing insights into the motivation of those who shaped English history in these crucial years. All the important legislation is included, but also details ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

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  • Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 3 - The History of England
    Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II.The ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The English Civil War At First Hand

    by Tristram Hunt ...
    Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel, Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated and great dynasties destroyed: fathers and sons, uncles and cousins were ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Oliver Cromwell

    And the Rule of the Puritans in England

    by C. H. Firth ...
    Sir Charles Firth’s biography of Oliver Cromwell portrays a man who was ‘both soldier and statesman in one’, a man of ‘a large-hearted, expansive vigorous nature’, one who always invokes the might of God to explain his very human acts of revenge and justice.Frith describes the years which led to Cromwell seizing power. These years included the rise and fall of megalomaniac King Charles I, meetings ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Oliver Cromwell

    And the Rule of the Puritans in England

    by Charles Firth ...
    Sir Charles Firth’s biography of Oliver Cromwell portrays a man who was ‘both soldier and statesman in one’, a man of ‘a large-hearted, expansive vigorous nature’, one who always invokes the might of God to explain his very human acts of revenge and justice.Frith describes the years which led to Cromwell seizing power. These years included the rise and fall of megalomaniac King Charles I, meetings ... Read more

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  • Oliver Cromwell

    by Samuel Rawson Gardiner ...
    Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was born at Huntingdon on April 25, 1599, receiving his baptismal name from his uncle, Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchingbrooke, a mansion hard by the little town. It was at Huntingdon that the father of the infant, Robert Cromwell, had established himself, farming lands and perhaps also adding to his income by the profits of ... Read more

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  • A Biography of Oliver Cromwell

    by Estelle Ross ...
    FOR NEARLY TWO CENTURIES CROMWELL’S name and fame were to suffer detraction, then Carlyle was to come forward and proclaim him with trumpet-blast a man of truth, the hero as King. “A brave bad man,” a hypocrite and fanatic—so he was judged by those whose vision was clouded by the passions of the time. The verdict of posterity has been otherwise. The courage and character which he demanded of his ... Read more

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  • The History of the Rebellion: A new selection

    A new selection

    by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.' Clarendon's massive History has since its first publication in 1702-4 dominated our images of the English Civil War. Written by a man who for over a quarter of a century was ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Life and Reign of Edward I.

    by Robert Benton Seeley ...
    BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE—EDWARD'S EARLIEST PROCEEDINGS THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS MIDDLE PERIOD OF EDWARD'S LIFE, A.D. 1279–1290 RETROSPECTIVE VIEW SCOTTISH AFFAIRS—THE ARBITRATION—THE WAR A.D. 1291–1296 TROUBLES WITH FRANCE—WAR IN SCOTLAND THE WAR WITH FRANCE, AND VARIOUS TROUBLES AT HOME, A.D. 1297 WILLIAM WALAYS, A.D. 1297, 1298 PROLONGATION OF TROUBLES IN SCOTLAND—PARLIAMENTARY ... Read more

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  • Life of Oliver Cromwell

    by Robert Southey ...
    Why was Oliver Cromwell selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a BBC poll? And yet, why was his corpse dug up, hung in chains and beheaded? Read on.It's the case with every great man in history that we don't know how he became great. Steve Jobs. Churchill. Jesus. Muhammad. But how? What shaped their character? What paved the way for them to rise into such a position that we ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Life and Reign of Edward I

    by Robert Seeley ...
    On the night of June 17–18, 1239, Queen Eleanor, the consort of Henry III., presented her husband with a son, who was born in the Palace of Westminster, and who was instantly, says the old chronicler, named by the king, “Edward, after the glorious king and confessor, whose body rests in the church of St. Peter,” immediately adjoining. The event was greeted by the nobles and by the people of London ... Read more

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  • Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and Lawyers

    by Various Authors ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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