John Miller, "After the Civil Wars: English Politics and Government in the Reign of Charles II"
English | ISBN: 0582298989 | 2000 | 318 pages | EPUB | 642 KB
English | ISBN: 0582298989 | 2000 | 318 pages | EPUB | 642 KB
The first study of Restoration England from the point of view of both rulers and ruled, this volume offers a vital reappraisal of seventeenth century England. The civil wars had a traumatic effect on the English people: memories of bloodshed and destruction and the ultimate horror of the execution of Charles I continued to be invoked for decades afterwards. It is often argued that the political and religious fissures created by the wars divided English society irrevocably, as demonstrated by the later bitter conflict between the Whig and Tory parties.
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