Blair Worden
Auteur de The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
A propos de l'auteur
Blair Worden is Professor of History at Royal Holloway College London.
Œuvres de Blair Worden
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (2007) 27 exemplaires
'Double Tongued', in LRB 32/22, 18 Nov 2010 [review of Nigel Smith's 'Andrew Marvell: the chameleon'] 2 exemplaires
'Hobbes & the Halo of Power' in NYRB 56/12, 16 July 2009 [review of Skinner's 'Hobbes and Republican Liberty'] 1 exemplaire
'Authority Figure' in Literary Review Dec 2012/Jan 2013 [review of 'The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas… 1 exemplaire
Stuart England 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Excellencie of a Free State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth (2012) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 17 exemplaires
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- 3.4
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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.… (plus d'informations)