Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University
Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London
77 Ebooks by Jason Peacey
Jason Peacey: Politicians and Pamphleteers
The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity. Nowhere was this more …
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€43.82
Jason Peacey: Politicians and Pamphleteers
The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity. Nowhere was this more …
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English
DRM
€43.83
Chris R. Kyle & Jason Peacey: Connecting centre and locality
This collection explores the dynamics of local/national political culture in seventeenth-century Britain, with particular reference to political communication. It examines the degree to which …
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English
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€139.99
Robert Ingram & Jason Peacey: Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of …
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English
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€139.99
Alex W. Barber & Robert (Associate Director) Ingram: Freedom of speech, 1500–1850
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of …
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€31.33
Jason Peacey: Making the British empire, 1660–1800
This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It …
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English
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€134.99
Tom Betteridge: Literature and politics in the English Reformation
This book is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of …
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€26.99
Grant Tapsell: The later Stuart Church, 1660–1714
The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, c …
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€38.99
Neil Younger: War and politics in the Elizabethan counties
War and politics in the Elizabethan counties reassesses the national war effort during the wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system …
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€49.99
Marco Barducci: Order and conflict
This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham’s career and writings for the first time in English.
During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the …
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€134.99
Alec Ryrie: The origins of the Scottish Reformation
The Scottish Reformation of 1560 is one of the most controversial events in Scottish history, and a turning point in the history of Britain and Europe. Yet its origins remain mysterious, buried under …
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€30.99
John Walter: Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in majo …
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€30.99
Raymond Gillespie: Reading Ireland
This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the im …
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€30.99
Isaac Stephens: The gentlewoman’s remembrance
A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women’s writing – a recently discovered 60, 000-word spiritual …
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English
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€129.99
Laurent Curelly & Nigel Smith: Radical voices, radical ways
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the …
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English
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€42.99
Hugh Adlington & Tom Lockwood: Chaplains in early modern England
Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious …
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English
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€129.99
David Coast: News and rumour in Jacobean England
This study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign. It investigates how the flow of information was managed and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€30.99
Gemma Allen: The Cooke sisters
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their …
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English
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€30.99
Rachel Foxley: The Levellers
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
J. F. Merritt: Westminster 1640–60
This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster – traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament – became the seat of the successive, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€49.99
Paul Cavill & Alexandra Gajda: Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England. The enduring controversy about the nature of parliament informs nearly all debates about …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
Edward Vallance: Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these …
EPUB
English
DRM
€129.99
Edward Legon: Revolution remembered
After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660 …
EPUB
English
DRM
€134.99
David Appleby & Andrew Hopper: Battle-scarred
Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds, medicine, …
EPUB
English
DRM
€33.99
Robert Ingram: Reformation without end
This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during ‘the Enlightenment’; instead, they saw themselves as …
EPUB
English
DRM
€42.99
Tristan Marshall: Theatre and empire
Theatre and empire looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralising Britain, this book examines how the idea of a un …
EPUB
English
DRM
€34.99
Cesare Cuttica: Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) and the patriotic monarch
This book, now available in paperback, studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unexp …
EPUB
English
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€37.99
Felicity Stout: Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
Concentrates on the fascinating life and work of Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) and his analysis of government and commonwealth, through the image of Russia. His account of Russia remains the …
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English
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€134.99
John Gurney: Brave community
Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution …
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English
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€29.99
Anthony Milton: Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. Newly available in paperback, it provides a detailed analysis of the wa …
EPUB
English
DRM
€29.99
David Appleby: Black Bartholomew’s Day
Black Bartholomew’s Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of Engl …
EPUB
English
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€27.99
Jeffrey Wigelsworth: Deism in Enlightenment England
This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment. While there have been many recent …
EPUB
English
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€129.99
Tobias Hug: Impostures in early modern England
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first …
EPUB
English
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€129.99
Geoff Baker: Reading and politics in early modern England
This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading, provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. Blund …
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English
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€26.99
Patrick Collinson: This England
Patrick Collinson was one of Britain’s foremost early modern historians. This volume collects together a number of his most interesting and least easily accessible essays with a thoughtful introducti …
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English
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€32.99
Susan Doran & Paulina Kewes: Doubtful and dangerous
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Although the earlier Elizab …
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English
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€29.99
Daniel Szechi: Britain’s lost revolution?
This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is …
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English
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€49.99
Jan Broadway: ‘No historie so meete’
This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, …
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€29.99
J. F. Merritt: The social world of early modern Westminster
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book i …
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English
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€26.99
Philip M. Taylor: Munitions of the mind
New edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An ideal textbook for all international courses covering media and …
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€29.99
Patrick Little: The Cromwellian Protectorate
The neglected period of the Protectorate is reviewed and reassessed in this stimulating collection.
The Protectorate is arguably the Cinderella of Interregnum studies: it lacks the immediate dram …
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€33.99
Paul D. Halliday & Eleanor Hubbard: Revolutionising politics
In this fascinating collection, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky come together to reconsider the meanings of England’s mid-seventeenth-century revolution. Their chapters range widely: …
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€129.99
Justin Champion: Republican learning
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland …
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English
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€0.00
Elliot Vernon: London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638–64
This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and …
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English
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€144.99
Chris R. Kyle & Jason Peacey: Connecting centre and locality
This collection explores the dynamics of local/national political culture in seventeenth-century Britain, with particular reference to political communication. It examines the degree to which …
EPUB
DRM
€112.80
Jason Peacey: Making the British empire, 1660–1800
This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It …
PDF
DRM
€25.04
David Appleby & Andrew Hopper: Battle-scarred
Battle-scarred investigates the human costs of the British Civil Wars. Through a series of varied case studies it examines the wartime experience of disease, burial, surgery and wounds, medicine, …
PDF
DRM
€26.23
Justin Champion: Republican learning
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland …
PDF
English
DRM
€3.75
Jason Peacey: Madman and the Churchrobber
This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations …
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English
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€41.86
Jason Peacey: Madman and the Churchrobber
This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations …
EPUB
English
DRM
€42.08
Jason Peacey & Peter Lake: Insolent proceedings
Insolent proceedings brings together leading scholars working on the politics, religion and literature of the English Revolution. It embraces new approaches to the upheavals that occurred in the …
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English
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€144.99
Brodie Waddell & Jason Peacey: The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welf …
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English
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€1.49
Isaac Stephens: The Gentlewoman”s Remembrance
A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women”s writing – a recently discovered 60, 000-word spiritual …
EPUB
DRM
€106.54
Laurent Curelly & Nigel Smith: Radical Voices, Radical Ways
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the …
EPUB
DRM
€32.47
Hugh Adlington & Tom Lockwood: Chaplains in Early Modern England
Chaplains in early modern England: Patronage, literature and religion surveys the roles and significance of chaplains between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Chaplains, though …
EPUB
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€105.45
David Coast: News and Rumour in Jacobean England
This study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted in late Jacobean England. Using a wide range of manuscript sources, it examines how news was managed and interpreted …
EPUB
DRM
€23.78
Gemma Allen: The Cooke Sisters
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected …
EPUB
DRM
€23.73
Rachel Foxley: The Levellers
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious tolerance and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty …
EPUB
DRM
€26.22
J. F. Merritt: Westminster 1640-60
This book examines the varied and fascinating ways that Westminster – traditionally home to the royal court, the fashionable West End and parliament – became the seat of the successive, …
EPUB
DRM
€38.46
Paul Cavill & Alexandra Gajda: Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England. The enduring controversy about the nature of parliament informs nearly all debates about …
PDF
DRM
€105.80
Edward Vallance: Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these …
EPUB
DRM
€25.07
Edward Legon: Revolution remembered
After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660 …
EPUB
DRM
€24.81
Robert (Associate Director) Ingram: Reformation without end
This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during ‘the Enlightenment’; instead, they saw themselves as …
EPUB
DRM
€32.56
Tristan Marshall: Theatre and empire
This book looks at the genesis of the British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. While devolution is currently decentralizing Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united …
EPUB
DRM
€26.29
Cesare Cuttica: Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and the patriotic monarch
This book, now available in paperback, studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of …
EPUB
English
DRM
€27.50
Felicity Stout: Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth examines English relations with Russia, from the ”strange and wonderfull discoverie” of the land in 1553 and Elizabeth I”s correspondence with Ivan …
EPUB
DRM
€106.54
John Gurney: Brave community
Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution …
EPUB
English
DRM
€21.15
Anthony Milton: Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. Newly available in paperback, it provides a detailed analysis of the …
EPUB
DRM
€22.54
Geoff Baker: Reading and politics in early modern England
This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his …
EPUB
DRM
€21.22
Tobias Hug: Impostures in early modern England
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first …
EPUB
DRM
€106.21
Jeffrey Wigelsworth: Deism in Enlightenment England
This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment. While there have been many recent …
EPUB
DRM
€105.58
Patrick Collinson: This England
Patrick Collinson was one of Britain’s foremost early modern historians. This volume collects together a number of his most interesting and least easily accessible essays with a thoughtful …
EPUB
English
DRM
€23.80
David Appleby: Black Bartholomew”s Day
Black Bartholomew”s Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of …
EPUB
DRM
€21.29
Susan Doran & Paulina Kewes: Doubtful and dangerous
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Although the earlier …
EPUB
DRM
€22.52
Daniel Szechi: Britain’s lost revolution?
This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is …
EPUB
English
DRM
€37.45
