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  • Oliver Cromwell

    The brave, bad man of British history

    by Professor John Morrill ...
    Oliver Cromwell is one of the most significant figures in British history – and one of the most misinterpreted.In this major new biography, John Morrill argues that Cromwell has been seriously misinterpreted by historians, not least by left-wing thinkers such as Tony Benn, who claim Cromwell as their own and thus misunderstand the nature of Cromwell's political thought, which was in fact a product ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

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  • South From Corregidor

    by John Morrill ...
    "The war is teaching us that heroes are likely to be simple men, and self-effacing. When, after much questioning, you get them to discuss their part in it, they do it without vainglory or mock modesty, quietly and matter-of-factly. It is only afterward, when you have had time to think about the stories they tell, that those stories take on epic proportions.Lieutenant Commander Morrill is like that ... Read more

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  • South from Corregidor

    by John Morrill, Pete Martin ...
    At the outbreak of the Second World War U.S.S. Quail was in the Philippines sweeping mines to provide access for American shipping to South Harbor, Corregidor. Damaged by enemy bombs and guns during the Japanese invasion of the island John Morrill and his fellow men decided to make the decision to scuttle their ship rather than allow it to be captured.This led them to begin one of the most daring ... Read more

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  • Ulster Transformed: Plantation in early modern Ireland c.1590–1641

    by R. J. Hunter ...
    R.J. Hunter occupied a unique place among historians of early modern Ireland – a highly respected scholar, much loved by his students and fellow academics. This volume brings together a selection of his finest essays: the more significant scholarly works which primarily reflect his interest in the Ulster Plantation and includes articleson the progress of urbanisation and the social and economic ... Read more

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  • Oliver Cromwell

    by John Morrill ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume II

    Uncertainty and Change, 1641-1745

    Edited by John Morrill, Liam Temple ...
    Series series Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism
    The second volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism traces the fortunes of Catholic communities in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland across a period of great uncertainty and change. From the outset of the Civil Wars in 1641 to the Jacobite rising of 1745, Catholics in the three kingdoms were varied in their responses to tumultuous events and tantalising opportunities. The ... Read more

    $141.29 USD

  • The Nature of the English Revolution

    by John Morrill ...
    John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Stuart Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Morrill ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys pull apart. It gives a graphic account of the effects of a century-long period during which ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Monarchy Transformed

    Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe

    Edited by Robert von Friedeburg, John Morrill ...
    This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • The Tudors

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Guy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of the period, from beginning to end, he considers Tudor politics, religion, and economics, as well as issues relating to gender and minority rule, and ... Read more

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  • Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Oliver Cromwell

    by John Buchan ...
    ‘Every student of the seventeenth century in England must desire sooner or later to have his say about its greatest figure.So says John Buchan in the preface to this magnificent biography, in which he sets out to reshape the way the soldier and statesman is perceived.Born in 1599, Cromwell was a devout Puritan who, when the civil war broke out, quickly joined the Parliamentary forces.He led those ... Read more

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