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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow (Paperback, 2010)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780571217342
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
- Item Height
- 197 mm
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Item Width
- 127 mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 465 g
- Number of Pages
- 608 Pages
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Charles II was thirty when he crossed the channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after the long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled with his father's beheading. 'Honour' was now a word tossed around in duels. 'Providence' could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. Exactly ten years later Charles would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV. The Restoration decade was one of experiment: from the science of the Royal Society to the startling role of credit and risk, from the shocking licence of the court to the failed attempts at toleration of different beliefs. Negotiating all these, Charles, the 'slippery sovereign', layed odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theatres were restored, but it was the king who was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court and his colourful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world.
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571217342
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
197 mm
Item Width
127 mm
Item Weight
465 g
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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Genre
Biographies & True Stories
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