The Penguin History of Britain: A Monarchy Transformed, Britain 1630-1714: 0006

by Mark Kishlansky (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $13.14

  The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of seventeenth-century Britons to the core.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $8.13

  At the accession of James I, Britain was an isolated archipelago; a century later it had become a world-class intellectual, commercial, and military center. In A Monarchy Transformed , Kishlansky blends scholarship with insight and learning with imagination to profile Britain in the 17th century--an era of of profound social, economic, and religious change.