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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-     Subjects     Stuart, House of.     James I, King of England, 1566-1625.     Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.     James II, King of England, 1633-1701.     Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.     Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.     Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714     Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-       by title:      Rebellion : the hist...       by call number:      941.06 A182r     Search the Web     Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-     Stuart, House of.     James I, King of England, 1566-1625.     Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.     James II, King of England, 1633-1701.     Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.     Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.     Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714     Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.       MARC Display

Rebellion : the history of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution / Peter Ackroyd. by Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2014. Call #: 941.06 A182r Subjects Stuart, House of.   James I, King of England, 1566-1625.   Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.   James II, King of England, 1633-1701.   Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.   Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.   Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.   Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714   Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Series Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- History of England ; v.3. ISBN:  9781250003638 (hc.) 1250003636 (hc.) Alternate title:  History of England. Volume III, Civil war Description:  ix, 502 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. 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, which in the Macmillan set was entitled Civil war. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-479) and index. Contents:  A new Solomon -- The plot -- The beacons -- 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. Summary:  Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart monarchy 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. Shrewd and opinionated, James I 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 during 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's great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. In addition to its account of England's royalty, Rebellion 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. The earlier volumes of thes series are: Volume I: Foundation: the history of England from its earliest beginnings to the Tudors; and Volume II: Tudors: the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 941.06 A182r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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