The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641
| Author | : Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 671 |
| Release | : 1888 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
History Of The Rebellion
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
| Author | : Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 1720 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
Civil War
| Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2014-09-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 144727170X |
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant – warts and all – portrayal of Charles's nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood', the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.
Working Class History
| Author | : Working Class His Working Class History |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2020-11-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781629638874 |
History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals--it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought back against exploitation, discrimination, colonization, and oppression. Working Class History presents a distinct selection of people's history through hundreds of "on this day in history" anniversaries that are as diverse and international as the working class itself. Women, young people, people of color, workers, migrants, indigenous people, LGBTQ people, disabled people, older people, the unemployed, home workers, and every other part of the working class have organized and taken action that has shaped our world, and improvements in living and working conditions have been won only by years of violent conflict and sacrifice. These everyday acts of resistance and rebellion highlight just some of those who have struggled for a better world and provide lessons and inspiration for those of us fighting in the present. Going day by day, this book paints a picture of how and why the world came to be as it is, how some have tried to change it, and the lengths to which the rich and powerful have gone to maintain and increase their wealth and influence.
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
| Author | : David J. Silbey |
| Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2012-03-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429942576 |
A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upstart imperialist Japan begins to make clear to neighboring Russia its territorial ambition. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they fear are corrupting their country. These ordinary Chinese—called Boxers by the West because of their martial arts showmanship—rise up seemingly out of nowhere. Foreshadowing the insurgencies of our recent past, they lack a centralized leadership and instead tap into latent nationalism and deep economic frustration to build their army. Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back the combined might of the imperial powers. Drawing on the diaries and letters of allied soldiers and diplomats, he paints a vivid portrait of the war. Although their cause ended just as quickly as it began, the Boxers would inspire Chinese nationalists—including a young Mao Zedong—for decades to come.
Hear Our Defeats
| Author | : Laurent Gaudé |
| Publisher | : Europa Editions |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2019-01-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1609455029 |
A “propulsive” historical novel about the battles—won, lost, and ongoing—that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review). Assem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut, he shares a night with Mariam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artifacts across the Middle East from the destruction wreaked by ISIS. Woven into these two forceful, gripping storylines are meditations on humankind’s bellicose history—Hannibal’s failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grant’s pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; and Emp. Haile Selassie’s swift retreat from Ethiopia: all turning points in world history, each showing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat. This novel is filled with both a philosophical sensibility and a riveting immediacy, seamlessly taking us across the battlefields of our past to reflect on the implications of conflicts being waged today. “Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs—deliberately separated in time and place—to convey a message about time, violence and humanity.” —The Times Literary Supplement
The History of the Rebellion
| Author | : Edward Earl Of Clarendon |
| Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2012-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781236447906 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ... so that his Majesty could no longer defer the execution of what he designed. And, being persuaded, by some who believed themselves, that, if he went thither, it would neither be in Sir John Hotham's will, nor in his power, to keep him out of that town; and that, being possessed of so considerable a post, and of the magazine there, he should sind a better temper towards a modest and dutiful treaty; his Majesty took the opportunity of a petition presented to him by the gentlemen of Yorkshire, (who in truth were much troubled at the order for removing the magazine from Hull; and were ready to appear in any thing for his service), in which " they desired him to cast his eye and "thoughts upon the safety of his own person, and "his princely issue, and that whole county; a great "means whereof, they said, did consist in the arms "and ammunition at Hull, placed there by his prince-? "ly care and charge; and since, upon general appre"hensions of dangers from foreign parts, thought sit "to be continued: and they did very earnestly be"seech him, that he would take such course, that "it might still remain there, for the better secur"ing those, and the rest of the northern parts." Hereupon, he resolved to go thither himself; and, the night before, he sent his son the Duke of York, 3 E 3 who who was' lately arrived from Richmond, accompanied with the Prince Elector, thither, with some other persons of honour; who knew no more, than that it was a journey given to the pleasure and curiosity of the Duke. Sir John Hotham received them with that duty and civility that became him. The next morning early, the King took horse from York; and, attended with two or three hundred of his servants, and gentlemen of the coun...
The Shadow of a Year
| Author | : John Gibney |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2013-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0299289532 |
In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal “massacre,” this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike.
