The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England by Dr Jonathan Healey

Description: The Blazing World by Dr Jonathan Healey This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life THE TIMESA brilliant, bloody account of Englands most dramatic century . . . Thrilling TELEGRAPHThe most entertaining general history of seventeenth-century England I have read TOM HOLLANDThe seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collapsed into a civil war, followed by army coup and regicide. For a short time – for the only time in history – England was a republic. In coffee shops and alehouses, ordinary people fizzed with ideas that were angry, populist and almost impossible to control.Despite these radical changes, few today fully understand the story of this revolutionary age. Leaders like Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and William of Orange have been reduced to caricatures, while major turning points like the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution are shrouded in myth. Yet, as Jonathan Healey argues, the period has never been more relevant. From raw politics to religious divisions, civil wars to witch trials, plague to press freedoms, The Blazing World tells the story of this strange but fascinating century in exuberant, panoramic detail. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Born in Leeds in 1982, Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He writes history from the bottom up, focusing on ordinary people – their lives, loves, culture and politics. He is Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford. In 2012 he was picked as one of the winners of BBC Radio 3s New Generation Thinkers Competition. Review The tempo never slackens in this erudite book * Economist *This lively and mischievous book guides us through a dangerous revolutionary century . . . Theres a reticence about taking on such a complex and turbulent period, but the rewards, as The Blazing World manifestly demonstrates, are very great -- Jessie Childs * The Times *One of the many virtues of Jonathan Healeys exciting new history of England during its most revolutionary period is the skilful way in which he thoroughly dissects the often obscure points of contention while never losing sight of the need to keep the narrative flowing . . . A rich and compelling account of one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in all our history -- Simon Griffith * Mail on Sunday *[A] lively, compelling and combative study of the most dramatic and consequential century in English history . . . The Blazing World offers a thrilling panorama of the period, from perspectives high and low, told with a winning combination of impish wit, sound judgment, and serious scholarship . . . It will delight those new to its extraordinary age, and fire up its grizzled veterans -- Paul Lay * Telegraph *Healeys prose is precise but colloquial. He presents complex arguments, but delivers them in a laid back, often jocular manner . . . He tackles big subjects – religious dissent, the legal system – but hitches them to piquant stories about individuals previously unknown to history . . . Events were tumultuous, but Healey persuasively shows us that thoughts were as thrilling and sometimes as wild . . . Compendious and lucid -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Spectator *An admirably even-handed account . . . For those new to the subject, Healeys retelling is exemplary -- Jerry Brotton * Financial Times *[An] engaging narrative of seventeenth-century Britain . . . The nature of political legitimacy, the threats of populist frenzy, the longing for transparent representative structures and the debates over their limits, the power of media and the manipulation of images in political life: as Healey indicates, these are not remote issues. He enables us to see the deep continuities in the period, and to understand how the arguments that dominated the seventeenth century have had a profound and formative effect on Britains democracy today -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *A zesty and gripping account of Englands "century of revolution" -- Edward Vallance * Literary Review *The Blazing World, offering a new history of revolutionary England in the seventeenth century, illustrates how uneasily any new king settles upon the throne . . . Healey has done extraordinary work in synthesising those academic books on the subject . . . Courageous and frequently engrossing . . . By tackling an enormous range of history with vim and intelligence, Healey has provided all of us with a lot to talk about -- Diane Purkiss * Prospect *Jonathan Healeys book is an impressive achievement. It focuses on the English political crises, setting them in an up-to-date social, intellectual and cultural context. Healeys spare but engaging narrative is brought to life at every stage with individual experiences . . . The reader is in safe hands, guided by a historian who is on top of the best work on many areas of seventeenth-century life, and who has made his own distinctive contribution to our understanding of seventeenth-century society -- Michael Braddick * Times Literary Supplement *Charts th[e] extraordinary course from the Tudors to the Hanoverians . . . Healey channels the inquiring spirit which came to define this revolutionary age, creating his own survey as rich and wide-ranging as the pioneering work of the seventeenth-century characters he so admires -- Miranda Malins * The Critic *Teems with details . . . The strength of the narrative is its determination to range nationwide, as metropolitan affairs affected the lives of ordinary folk in the shires; this is history told from the bottom up. Dr Healey deals with the major historical events with assurance and forensic insight . . . A triumph of exposition, illuminating a blazing time of revolution in which was forged a new world order -- Timothy Mowl * Country Life *A sparkling account of a period that is crucial for any understanding of the history of the UK, Europe and the world beyond -- Peter FrankopanSeventeenth-century England comes thrillingly alive in Jonathan Healeys energetic new history . . . Healeys book is refreshing for its energetic writing, engaging wit and sound foundation in recent historical scholarship . . . Rich with anecdotes and explanations . . . Healey captures the vitality and turbulence of 17th-century England in an effective retelling, with many more players than the typical cast of kings and queens . . . While narrating his tempestuous past, Healey has an eye on the present . . . This readable and informative overview evokes a lost world which, for better or for worse, "was blazing a path toward our own" -- David Cressy * New York Times *Capturing a century such as this in one breath is not for the faint-hearted . . . An unapologetic narrative history that draws the focus from the Tudors and onto the fascinating Stuart age can only help to freshen the air of current historical discourse. In this sense, Healeys book is blazing trails -- Nadine Akkerman * History Today *In his wide-ranging new history of revolutionary England, Jonathan Healey has given us a masterly account of a period that urgently needs to be reclaimed and recognised for its importance and interest . . . Painstakingly researched and elegantly written, The Blazing World is that rare achievement – a window into the past that is at once profoundly different and yet startlingly familiar. It deserves every success -- Dr Linda Porter * Writing Desk *The Blazing World tells the story of that crucible era when Englishmen began to think. About God and government, how to limit the monarchy and how the poorest he (if not the poorest she) might share in some kind of democracy. Jonathan Healey explains Revolutionary England with great insight and wit, and an objectivity usually lacking in histories written with an inclination towards one side or the other. The book helps us to understand how and why, 400 years ago, Englishmen came to develop political and religious beliefs for which they were prepared to die and would eventually amalgamate in a way which set Britain (and, ideologically) America on a path to greatness. -- Geoffrey Robertson KC, author of The Tyrannicide BriefAn erudite but readable history of a remarkable century. Contemporary voices, unearthed from the archive, convey the texture of the times and bring events to life -- Dr Margarette Lincoln, author of London and the Seventeenth CenturyHere a familiar and very important story is told with exceptional clarity and vigour, and plenty of very unfamiliar anecdotes and characters, drawn from all over the nation and all of Stuart society -- Ronald HuttonThe seventeenth century was the most dramatic and consequential in British history, the period during which the modern world was formed, and Jonathan Healey is as assured a guide to its twists and turns, its tragedies and triumphs as one could wish for. The Blazing World is a triumph of scholarship and concision -- Paul Lay, author of Providence Lost Promotional A major new history of Englands turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world Details ISBN152662169X Author Dr Jonathan Healey Pages 512 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781526621696 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Subtitle A New History of Revolutionary England Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2024-01-18 ISBN-10 152662169X Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 941.06 Audience General AU Release Date 2024-06-03 Publication Date 2024-04-11 UK Release Date 2024-04-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160773470;

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