From the celebrated author of "The Lunar Men" comes a thrilling portrait of Charles II as viewed through the vibrant, violent world of the Stuart Restoration.
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From the celebrated author of "The Lunar Men" comes a thrilling portrait of Charles II as viewed through the vibrant, violent world of the Stuart Restoration.
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Shipped within 24 hrs of purchase. Satisfaction guaranteed! This is an ex-library book with stickers and and typical library markings. However, this book remains in very good condition. The binding is solid and that pages are in great shape.
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Used Very Good in Very Good jacket. Dust Jacket is clean and intact, with minor edge and corner wear. Front and back covers have very light edge and corner wear. Spine intact with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover, xi, 580 pp., 30 plates, numerous text illustrations, maps, unclipped illustrated jacket. 1st American Edition, 1st Printing. Minimal wear, unmarked, tight binding, nice jacket. The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the starling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xi, [1], 580 pages. Illustrations. A Note on the Text. Maps, Abbreviations and Sources. Notes. List of Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE (née Crowther, born 1947) is a British biographer, historian, critic and publisher. She was an editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and Edward Lear, and a history and joint biography of the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. She won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730-1810, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She is a past president of the Alliance of Literary Societies and has also chaired the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. Derived from a Kirkus review: British historian Uglow attempts to organize the bemusing Stuart Restoration period into tidy compartments. How did the son of the murdered tyrant Charles I return to England in triumph more than a decade after his father's beheading, then stay securely in power for 25 years? The author considers the makeup of this singular historical character. The author divides her exploration of Charles's kingly life into the four suits of a deck of cards-clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades-and depicts how he played each well or poorly: regulating constitutional issues, deciding the fate of the army, mollifying religious animosities, punishing the leaders of the regicide, rehabilitating Whitehall into a royal residence and juggling his new queen, the Portuguese Infanta Catherine, with his numerous mistresses. Charles dragged the country into war with the Dutch and urged religious toleration probably out of his own Catholic sympathies, while impoverishing the country by keeping up with his cousin in France, Louis XIV. Charles was passionate about the theater and scientific inquiry, thus establishing the Royal Society.
