A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603 - 1714
7 best books like A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603 - 1714 (Mark A. Kishlansky): The Agricola and The Germania, Pnin, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918: an anthology, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
| Author | Tacitus |
| ISBN | 0140442413 |
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country,...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 1400041988 |
One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series...
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | Keith Thomas |
| ISBN | 0195213602 |
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this...
| Author | Brian Gardner |
| ISBN | 0413595706 |
Years ago, one of my teachers spoke of the importance of five minute books. His point being that no time needed to be wasted. Waiting for a bus, read the book you carried with you for that purpose. Waiting in the dentist or doctor, the same book. In a traffic jam, don't get angry and road ragey, open your little...
| Author | Christopher Hill |
| ISBN | 0140137327 |
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic--the ideology of the propertied class--there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success "might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political...
| Author | Linda Colley |
| ISBN | 0300059256 |
The current, and ongoing for the foreseeable future, business of Brexit adds a further facet to this book. Identity, group identity, Benedict Anderson's (view spoiler)[ that loyal and true citizen Benedict Arnold always comes to mind first as the author of that book requiring me to check and distinguish...
