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Viac o knihe Stuart Britain
Most
comprehensive and authoritative short guide to Stuart Britain
Highly acclaimed text, first published in
the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
Revised and updated for this edition
Written by one of the most prolific
historians of the English Revolution
Indispensable for students and general
readers
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 population was growing inexorably and faster than both the
food supply and the employment market. It looks at the failed attempts
of successive governments to make all those under their authority
obedient members of a unified national church; it looks at how Charles I
blundered into a
civil war which then took on a terrifying momentum of its own. The
result was his trial and execution, the abolition of the monarchy, the
house of lords, the bishops, the prayer book and the celebration of
Christmas. As a result everything else that people took for granted came
up for challenge, and this book shows how painfully and with what
difficulty order and obedience was restored. Vividly illustrated and
full of startling detail, this is an ideal introduction to those
interested in getting into the period, and also contains much to
challenge and stimulate those who already feel at home in Stuart
England.
