| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
ix, 502 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title The history of England. Rebellion is volume 3, which, in the Macmillan set, was entitled Civil war. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [471]-479) and index. |
| Contents |
A new Solomon -- The plot -- The beacons -- The god of money -- The angel -- The vapours -- What news? -- A Bohemian tragedy -- The Spanish travellers -- An interlude -- Vivat Rex -- A fall from grace -- Take that slime away -- I am the man -- The crack of doom -- The shrimp -- Sudden flashings -- Venture all -- A great and dangerous treason -- Madness and fury -- A world of change -- Worse and worse news -- A world of mischief -- Neither hot nor cold -- The gates of Hell -- The women of war -- The face of God -- The mansion of liberty -- A game to play -- To kill a king -- This house to be let -- Fear and trembling -- Healing and settling -- Is it possible? -- The young gentleman -- Oh, prodigious change! -- On the road -- To rise and piss -- And not dead yet? -- The true force -- Hot news -- New infirmities -- Or at the Cock? -- Noise rhymes to noise -- The Protestant wind. |
| Summary |
Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and the deposition and exile of James II. |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
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Stuart, House of.
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| ISBN |
9781250003638 (hardcover) : $29.99 |
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1250003636 (hardcover) |
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