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Rebellion : the history of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution / Peter Ackroyd.

by Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-

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New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2014.

Stuart, House of.

Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.

9781250003638 (hardcover) :

1250003636 (hardcover)

ix, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

First U.S. edition.

A new Solomon -- The plot -- The beacon -- The God of money -- The angel -- The vapours -- What news? -- A Bohemian tragedy -- The Spanish travellers -- An interlude -- Vivat Rex -- A fall from grace -- Take that slime away -- I am the man -- The crack of doom -- The shrimp -- Sudden flashings -- Venture all -- A great and dangerous treason -- Madness and fury -- A world of change -- Worse and worse news -- A world of mischief -- Neither hot nor cold -- The gates of Hell -- The women of war -- The face of God -- The mansion of liberty -- A game to play -- To kill a king -- This house to be let -- Fear and trembling -- Healing and settling -- Is it possible? -- The young gentleman -- Oh prodigious change -- On the road -- To rise and piss -- And not dead yet? -- The true force -- Hot news -- New infirmities -- Or at the cock? -- Noise rhymes to noise -- The Protestant wind.

Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution of Charles I, the rule of Oliver Cromwell, and the deposition and exile of James II.

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