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  • Revolutionising politics

    Culture and conflict in England, 1620–60

    Edited by Paul D. Halliday, Eleanor Hubbard, Scott Sowerby ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    In this fascinating collection, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky come together to reconsider the meanings of England’s mid-seventeenth-century revolution. Their chapters range widely: from shipboard to urban conflicts; from court sermons to local finances; from debates over hairstyles to debates over the meanings of regicide; from courtrooms to pamphlet wars; and from religious rights ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

    by Brian Cowan, Paul Kléber Monod, Annabel Patterson, Scott Sowerby, Stephen C Taylor, Professor Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, Newton Newton Key, Mark Knights0, Professor John Marshall1, Andrea McKenzie2 ...
    State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lively Experiment

    Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

    by Teresa Bejan, Jacob Betz, Steven Green, Evan Haefeli, Susanna Linsley, David Mislin, Keith Pacholl, Nicholas Pellegrino, Scott Sowerby, Ronit Stahl, Evelyn Sterne, James B. Bennett, Cristine T. Hutchison-Jones, Christopher C. Jones, Paul E. Matzko, Andrew R. Murphy, Shawn F. Peters, Denise A. Spellberg, Kip A. Wedel ...
    Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world’s first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode Island, a colony that welcomed people of many faiths. Though stark forms of intolerance persisted, Williams’ commitments to faith and liberty of conscience came to define the nation and its conception ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Worlds of William Penn

    by Andrew R. Murphy, Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann, Marcus Gallo, Audrey Horning, Elizabeth Sauer, Scott Sowerby, Patrick M. Erben0, Michael Goode1, Alexander Mazzaferro2, Sarah A. Morgan Smith3, Catie Gill4, Adrian Chastain Weimer5, Rachel Love Monroy6, Evan Haefeli7, Patrick Cecil8, Shuichi Wanibuchi9 ...
    William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Making Toleration

    The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution

    by Scott Sowerby ...
    Series Book 181 - Harvard Historical Studies
    In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers who failed to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England. Although the ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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  • 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

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  • Revolution

    The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

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    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

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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

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  • Puritanism & Revolution

    by Christopher Hill ...
    This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day. Each essay approaches the subject from a different angle, looking at aspects of the revolution - whether religious, ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)

    The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland

    by Ian McBride ...
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  • The Common Freedom of the People

    John Lilburne and the English Revolution

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    The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought ... Read more

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