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''This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life'' THE TIMES
''A brilliant, bloody account of England''s most dramatic century . . . Thrilling'' TELEGRAPH
The most entertaining general history of seventeenth-century England I have read' TOM HOLLAND

The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collapsed into a civil war, followed by army coup and regicide. For a short time for the only time in history England was a republic. In coffee shops and alehouses, ordinary people fizzed with ideas that were angry, populist and almost impossible to control.

Despite these radical changes, few today fully understand the story of this revolutionary age. Leaders like Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and William of Orange have been reduced to caricatures, while

The Blazing World

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781526621696
      978-1526621696
      ISBN-10 152662169X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life'' THE TIMES
      ''A brilliant, bloody account of England''s most dramatic century . . . Thrilling'' TELEGRAPH
      The most entertaining general history of seventeenth-century England I have read' TOM HOLLAND

      The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collapsed into a civil war, followed by army coup and regicide. For a short time for the only time in history England was a republic. In coffee shops and alehouses, ordinary people fizzed with ideas that were angry, populist and almost impossible to control.

      Despite these radical changes, few today fully understand the story of this revolutionary age. Leaders like Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and William of Orange have been reduced to caricatures, while

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