by Michael Bush (1996)
This book studies the largest insurrection to occur in England between the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and the English Civil War of the 164Os. It concentrates upon the nine rebel armies that were mobilised in the North during the month of October 1536, examining their recruitment, organisation, grievances and aims, as well as the impact they made upon the government of Henry VIII. Operating principally from original sources, it revises the standard work of the Dodds and appraises the research produced in the subject over the last thirty years. Bush proposes that, as a rising of the commons, the aim of the rebellion was to safeguard the commonwealth as well as to protect Christ's faith, arguing that it cannot be fully explained as a reaction against the Henrician Reformation. On the other hand, in adopting the idiom of a rising of the commons, it did not become simply a popular uprising, but was rather a conjunction of protest, with gentlemen, clergy and commons establishing working alliances with each other against the government. Besides a study of revolt, this book provides a vital insight into the cultural, religious, political and social beliefs of sixteenth-century England.
Barbara Donagan
Drawing extensively on primary sources, and with the focus on examining what the war was like to live through - for example the living conditions for soldiers, the conduct of war, etc. - this study illuminates the human cost of war and its effect on society, both in our own day as well as in the 17th century.
K.W. Mitchinson
"The fear of a cross-Channel invasion had been a recurrent worry to Britain's naval, military and political leaders for centuries. By 1908 the likely invader had changed but the British public, alarmed by lurid tales of a bestial, rampaging German army protected by the might of the Kaiser's provocative new fleet, demanded greater security. Although the War Office and Government were confident that full-scale invasion was unlikely, they continued to assume that vulnerable and strategically important sites might be raided by up to 150,000 troops. Defending Albion analyses the responses of the British military and civil authorities to the perceived threat. It is the first published work to explore the schemes designed to confront an enemy landing and to examine the difficulties faced by the derided Territorial Force in trying to meet the challenge. It also investigates the long-neglected political and military problems posed by the unwanted spontaneous creation of what is today the largely unknown existence of the 'Dad's Army' of the Great War, the Volunteer Force."--Jacket.
Michel Rodigneaux
L'activité frénétique des corsaires au large des côtes guadeloupéennes au temps de Victor Hugues a pu évoquer à divers titres celles des terribles pirates barbaresques qui sévissaient en Méditerranée à la même époque. C'est cette aventure méconnue que l'auteur nous fait revivre ici. Il décortique ce qu'il faut bien appeler une "économie corsaire", pendant la Révolution et l'Empire en Guadeloupe. La grande et la petite histoire se rejoignent ainsi en une épopée héroïque.
Sarah A. Hoyt
(Shakespearean Fantasies #3) William Shakespeare has become the preeminent playwright of Elizabethan England, but his success comes with a price--his son Hamnet has disappeared in the realm of the Elven King, and Will must face the powers of darkness to rescue him.