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Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)

- England's Protector
Af: David Horspool Engelsk Paperback

Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)

- England's Protector
Af: David Horspool Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9780141988696
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 014198869X
Kategori: English Civil War & Interregnum
Udg. Dato: 28 jun 2018
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 111mm
Højde: 178mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 28 jun 2018
Forfatter(e): David Horspool
Forfatter(e) David Horspool

Kategori English Civil War & Interregnum

ISBN-13 9780141988696

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 160

Udgave

Længde 11mm

Bredde 111mm

Højde 178mm

Udg. Dato 28 jun 2018

Oplagsdato 28 jun 2018

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd