Blair Worden
Teoksen The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660 tekijä
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Blair Worden is Professor of History at Royal Holloway College London.
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The Excellencie of a Free State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth (2012) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset — 18 kappaletta
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To be honest, it is too brief, and it's really difficult to see what the point of writing such a small book describing twenty years of tumultuous history might be. There's hardly any detail of the major events; mostly it is about the political and social context for these events. About the only thing that I found informative in this book was Worden's description of the battles for religious supremacy that accompanied the struggle for temporal power during that period.
For people with a real interest in the Civil War, I would recommend reading one of the countless works that deal with them in detail, and I can't really see why anybody else would want to read this at all.… (lisätietoja)