Год выпуска: 2006 Автор: John Wroughton Издательство: Routledge Страниц: 328 ISBN: 978-0-415-37893-2
Описание
Here is an invaluable, user-friendly and compact compendium packed with facts and figures on the seventeenth century - one of the most tumultuous and complex periods in British history. From James I to Queen Anne, this Companion includes detailed information on political, religious and cultural developments as well as military activity, foreign affairs and colonial expansion. Chronologies, biographies, documents, maps and genealogies, and an extensive bibliography navigate the reader through this fascinating and formative epoch as the book details the key events and themes of the era including: The English Civil War and its military campaigns; The Gunpowder Plot, Catholic persecution and the influence of Puritanism; Imperial adventures in America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean; Scotland and the Act of Union, 1707; The Irish Confederate wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland; The Great Fire of 1666 and...
