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Devil-Land - England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (Paperback)
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Devil-Land - England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (Paperback)
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*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021,
AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very
un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never
look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A
ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English
history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was
known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn
apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal
collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English
history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a
nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic
with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic
Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were
seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars,
regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the
floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother,
James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch
army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in
many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by
devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of
London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes
brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied
foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of
the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious
Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular
reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.
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