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`This is by far the best modern biography of Charles I and will be welcomed both by general readers and by specialists...a strikingly individual contribution to our understanding of the personality of this King.' British Book News
A comprehensive re-evaluation of Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), one of the more prominent and intriguing of all seventeenth-century men of science. Barrow is... Læs mere
The Earl of Essex was the last great favourite of Elizabeth I. Using an unparalleled range of sources, this revisionist 1999 study presents a picture of Essex and of the outbreak of faction in Elizabethan politics.
The accounts of Elizabeth Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world are the basis for a new critical edition of her... Læs mere
The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
This study serves both as a biography of the so-called "First Englishman in Japan", and as a focus on the period itself - particularly in terms of trade and political alliances, in both Europe and Japan.
This book offers valuable insights into biography's role as a form of social and cultural negotiation geared to advance the biographer's... Læs mere
Originally published in 1981, Parents and Playgroups brings together three wide-ranging reports which examine the role of the... Læs mere