M. J Braddick
Author
Language
English
Description
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the 17th century was the single most traumatic event between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Braddick gives the reader a sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island. Here, Michael Braddick sets out to do something else--to ask how people in the past used political power to get things done. Offering a concise thematic overview, it shows how history can speak directly...