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Rebellion : the history of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution / Peter Ackroyd.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA375 .A25 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Stuart, House of.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press ; 2014.
- 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.
- Contents:
- A new Solomon
- The plot
- The beacon
- 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.
- The beacons
- Notes:
- 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 in that series.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-479) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Jones fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781250003638
- 1250003636
- OCLC:
- 865158132
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