The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England
Seventeenth-century England executed its king, abolished the monarchy, and then quietly invited it all back.
Jonathan Healey covers the whole revolutionary century, from the early Stuarts through civil war, regicide, the republic and the Restoration, with as much attention to ordinary people and the pamphlet wars as to the politics at the top. Wide-ranging and readable on a period it is genuinely hard to read too much about.
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Tyler Cowen
Jonathan Healey, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England. As with World War II, you can’t read enough books about 17th century England. This new book has excellent coverage of the English Civil War, and overall the different fights between factions.
Source · February 2023
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