Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
Autor Paul Layen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781853368
ISBN-10: 1781853363
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 1 x 8pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1781853363
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 1 x 8pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A vivid and scholarly evocation of a critical but often overlooked era in the making of modern Britain.
Notă biografică
Paul Lay is Editor of History Today. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon.
Recenzii
Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade
Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence
In telling us what Cromwell believed, Lay helps us to understand the man, but his witty and incisive book is also a reminder why the English, in particular, hate the bossy pieties of the puritanical elite, and distrust radicalism
Lay offers a vivid, clear and highly engrossing narrative of these fast moving and complicated events
An enlightening study of the often overlooked rule of Oliver Cromwell
A book for the general reader, based on a thorough knowledge of the sources, and written with perceptiveness as well as narrative zest - a lively, attention-holding account of what is surely the strangest decade in British history
A superb summary of the ebbs and flows of the Interregnum, a strangely 'lost' decade
[An] absorbing and beautifully written book
A readable and witty guide to England's republican interregnum
A highly readable book, full of wit, sober thought and scholarly rigour
A spirited and vivid survey of the brief period in which Cromwell held the dangerously ill-defined role of "lord protector"
A history of Cromwell's republic that contends this was actually a period of intense creativity
Fascinating new history of the English interregnum
A compelling and exciting account of a critical period in early modern British history
A brilliant aid to understanding modern Britain and, indirectly, the United States; the lessons of the Protectorate were not lost on the founding fathers
Told in gripping fashion; each chapter is filled with enough intrigue to fuel a TV soap opera. The various warring factions are explained with vigour and clarity, while lesser-known events, such as a failed attempt to assassinate Cromwell, are packed with detail
Paul Lay is bracing and undeceived in his judgments... Lay shows us what a distinctive period it was, full of frenetic excursions and alarms but for most people not unendurable, shallow-rooted in the good sense... Lay treats each volcanic caprice of the Protector's with the amused scepticism it deserves, not struggling overmuch to discern some consistent purpose behind it'
What Lay gives us is a warts-and-all picture of a man with the weaknesses of any other, and who struggled heroically to stabilise, and to attempt to unite, a country shattered by a decade of civil wars
Cromwell's republic was more energetic than we thought, reveals this brisk study
Fascinating
Interesting material on the rule of Cromwell's major generals and on the debate on the succession to Cromwell and the falling out with John Lambert, who had been seen as Cromwell's deputy
Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence
In telling us what Cromwell believed, Lay helps us to understand the man, but his witty and incisive book is also a reminder why the English, in particular, hate the bossy pieties of the puritanical elite, and distrust radicalism
Lay offers a vivid, clear and highly engrossing narrative of these fast moving and complicated events
An enlightening study of the often overlooked rule of Oliver Cromwell
A book for the general reader, based on a thorough knowledge of the sources, and written with perceptiveness as well as narrative zest - a lively, attention-holding account of what is surely the strangest decade in British history
A superb summary of the ebbs and flows of the Interregnum, a strangely 'lost' decade
[An] absorbing and beautifully written book
A readable and witty guide to England's republican interregnum
A highly readable book, full of wit, sober thought and scholarly rigour
A spirited and vivid survey of the brief period in which Cromwell held the dangerously ill-defined role of "lord protector"
A history of Cromwell's republic that contends this was actually a period of intense creativity
Fascinating new history of the English interregnum
A compelling and exciting account of a critical period in early modern British history
A brilliant aid to understanding modern Britain and, indirectly, the United States; the lessons of the Protectorate were not lost on the founding fathers
Told in gripping fashion; each chapter is filled with enough intrigue to fuel a TV soap opera. The various warring factions are explained with vigour and clarity, while lesser-known events, such as a failed attempt to assassinate Cromwell, are packed with detail
Paul Lay is bracing and undeceived in his judgments... Lay shows us what a distinctive period it was, full of frenetic excursions and alarms but for most people not unendurable, shallow-rooted in the good sense... Lay treats each volcanic caprice of the Protector's with the amused scepticism it deserves, not struggling overmuch to discern some consistent purpose behind it'
What Lay gives us is a warts-and-all picture of a man with the weaknesses of any other, and who struggled heroically to stabilise, and to attempt to unite, a country shattered by a decade of civil wars
Cromwell's republic was more energetic than we thought, reveals this brisk study
Fascinating
Interesting material on the rule of Cromwell's major generals and on the debate on the succession to Cromwell and the falling out with John Lambert, who had been seen as Cromwell's deputy