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Scribner
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[2023]
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English
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"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into...
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English
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The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)-the only English commoner to become the overall head of state-is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless....
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2020 brings readers the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower-the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. It is a foundational event in American history, but it began as an English story, which pioneered the idea of religious freedom. The illegal underground movement of Protestant separatists from Elizabeth I's Church of England is a story of subterfuge and danger, arrests and interrogations, prison and executions. It starts...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic-the ideology of the propertied class-there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success zmight have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might have disestablished the state church and rejected the protestant ethic.yIn The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill studies...
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans.
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