The Blazing World : A New History of Revolutionary England, Jonathan Healey

The Blazing World : A New History of Revolutionary England, Jonathan HealeyNew Paperback The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collapsed into a civil war, followed by army coup and regicide. For a short time for the only time in history England was a republic. In coffee shops and alehouses, ordinary people fizzed with ideas that were angry, populist and almost impossible to control. Despite these radical changes,

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