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Cargando... Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs): England's Protector (2017 original; edición 2017)por David Horspool (Autor)
Información de la obraOliver Cromwell : England's Protector por David Horspool (2017)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I'm familiar with the statue of warty old Cromwell staring down with an accusational finger pointing towards me as I walk around my local town which was one of his old familiar haunts. Outside of that, and his old home in Ely, my knowledge of him was a little hazy. This book has helped me to better understand Cromwell's life and the events that shaped him. The success and failures, his treacherous treatment of Ireland, his political career, and his strange monarch-like non-monarch position as Lord Protector. I found it fairly easy to read, and the chapters well paced. The family tree at the front (which seems customary of these Penguin Monarchs books), helped me to get a grip with some of the names mentioned, and I felt that the book gave me enough to feel I 'know' something of his time in our history. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him. Yet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait of England's Lord Protector, Cromwell, the Puritan son of Cambridgeshire gentry, wielded such influence that it would be a pretence to say that power really lay with the collective. The years of Cromwell's rise to power, shaped by a decade-long civil war, saw a sustained attempt at the collective government of England; the first attempts at a real Union of Britain; the beginnings of empire; a radically new solution to the idea of a national religion; atrocities in Ireland; and the readmission to England of the Jews, a people officially banned for over three and a half centuries. At the end of it, Oliver Cromwell had emerged as the country's sole ruler: to his enemies, and probably to most of his countrymen, his legacy looked as likely to last as that of the Stuart dynasty he had replaced. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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