Author is charismatic Cambridge don and national press reviewer Adamson's previous book, PRINCELY COURTS OF EUROPE, was widely praised, particularly in The Times and Telegraph etc. The most comprehensive re-evaluation of the origins of the English Civil War for over a century. The sequel, THE WAR OF THE REALMS, will be published in 2009.
John Adamson is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and has written extensively on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political and cultural history. He is a winner of the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize and the University of Cambridge's Seeley Medal for History.
"immensely scholarly and beautifully written book... This is one of the most original and thought-provoking books on the civil war I have yet read." -- SIMON HEFFER THE LITERARY REVIEW "a work of great style and imagination... As with a great 19th-century novel, the story and the characters will become your friends for life." -- ED SMITH THE TIMES "vigorously refutes more than a century of debate on the reasons for Charles's downfall. a good old-fashioned political history." THE SUNDAY TIMES "a monumental achievement. ..a timeless study of the realities of power... John Adamson has given us a masterly account." -- MALCOLM GASKILL THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "... new and profound, it's an exciting read, full of colour and finely drawn characters. the ten years dedicated to writing it were well spent." -- LEANDA DE LISLE THE SPECTATOR "engaging... he delivers a body blow to recent modes of revisionist analysis." THE DAILY TELEGRAPH "Adamson has fine gifts of characterisation... he has raised his subject to a new level." -- BLAIR WORDEN LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS "excellent... As rigorously close-up historical narrative, this is exemplary stuff." THE GUARDIAN "Adamson's book has much to offer." FINANCIAL TIMES " a daunting range of references and a fluent prose style. This is history at its biggest and boldest." THE FIRST POST "In a charismatic way, Adamson tells the gripping story of those tense days of the 1630s and 1640s... This is revisionism with a scholarly slant." THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
