The Blazing World
A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
“[Healy] makes a convincing argument that the turbulent era qualifies as truly ‘revolutionary,’ not simply because of its cascading political upheavals, but in terms of far-reaching changes within society.... Wryly humorous and occasionally bawdy”— The Wall Street Journal
The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of…
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August 27, 2024JONATHAN HEALEY is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and author of The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603–1689. He is associate professor in social history at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in 2008. He lives in Oxford.
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