Description
| Product ID: | 9780140264654 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Restoration |
| Subtitle: | Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 |
| Authors: | Author: Tim Harris |
| Page Count: | 544 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, British Isles |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the discontent of the 1680s. This book looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England, and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics. The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II''s triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England revelling in its freedom from the austerity of Puritan rule under a merry monarch and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics where people were brutalised, hounded and exploited by a regime that was desperately insecure after two decade of civil war and republican rule. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-01-26 |