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  • Irish townspeople

    The early modern urban experience, c.1400–c.1640

    by Prof Colm Lennon ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern Irish History
    Through a series of innovative perspectives, this book examines how early modern Irish townspeople experienced the urban world through a range of family and associational ties. Migrants inducted through town citizenship and marriage bonded more closely as sisters or brothers of confraternities and guilds, consolidating parish membership. Civic religion saw the integration of religion with town ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

    The Incomplete Conquest – Irish Landlords and the Extension of English Royal Power

    by Colm Lennon ...
    Series Book 2 - New Gill History of Ireland
    Colm Lennon's Sixteenth-Century Ireland, the second instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, looks at how the Tudor conquest of Ireland by Henry VIII and the country's colonisation by Protestant settlers led to the incomplete conquest of Ireland, laying the foundations for the sectarian conflict that persists to this day. In 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    by Raymond Gillespie ...
    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Hollow Crown

    A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Scotland : A History

    A History

    by Jenny Wormald ...
    Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got in on the act, because of their heroism in resisting English aggression. This has had its own ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scotland

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rab Houston ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Revolution

    The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

    by Tim Harris ...
    To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Revolution brilliantly captures the sense that this was a great turning point in Britain's history, but ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction

    by John Guy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy's Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in British history. It offers a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The work has been substantially ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Restoration

    Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685

    by Tim Harris ...
    The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Black Death in London

    by Barney Sloane ...
    The Black Death of 1348–49 may have killed more than 50% of the European population. This book examines the impact of this appalling disaster on England's most populous city, London. Using previously untapped documentary sources alongside archaeological evidence, a remarkably detailed picture emerges of the arrival, duration and public response to this epidemic and subsequent fourteenth-century ... Read more

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  • The King's Cardinal

    The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey

    by Peter J Gwyn ...
    Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book.From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of ... Read more

    $21.29 USD