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32%OFFMichael Braddick - God's Fury, England's Fire - 9780141008974 - V9780141008974
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God's Fury, England's Fire

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Description for God's Fury, England's Fire Paperback. The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. This book illuminates what it was like to live through a time of terrifying violence, religious fervor and radical politics. Num Pages: 784 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBWE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 37. Weight in Grams: 544.

A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historians

The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War.

This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God’s Fury, England’s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the king’s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God – that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, ‘God’s fury’ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign?

Michael Braddick’s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides.

God’s Fury, England’s Fire allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141008974
SKU
V9780141008974
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99-31

About Michael Braddick
Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558–1700 and State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1500–1700.

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