![]() ![]() Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. ![]() The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. Wryly humorous and occasionally bawdy”- The Wall Street Journal “ makes a convincing argument that the turbulent era qualifies as truly ‘revolutionary,’ not simply because of its cascading political upheavals, but in terms of far-reaching changes within society. “Recapture a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”-Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker.A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. ![]()
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