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DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   8/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

1650 REGICIDE

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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 an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time...

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   7/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-World-History-Revolutionary-1603-1689/dp/0593318358

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 an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only t...

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   6/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

1669 REGICIDE

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   5/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   4/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   3/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   2/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)
1688 REGICIDE

DID AMERICA'S REVOLT START WITH REGICIDE?   1/8: The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 Hardcover – by  Jonathan Healey (Author)

1838 REGICIDE

https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-World-History-Revolutionary-1603-1689/dp/0593318358

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 an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time...

FASHION IS CIVILIZATION. 4/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – by  Anne Higonnet (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Equality-Fashion-Styled-Revolution/dp/0393867951

Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Térézia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries...

FASHION IS CIVILIZATION. 3/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – by  Anne Higonnet (Author)

FASHION IS CIVILIZATION. 2/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – by  Anne Higonnet (Author)
1796 JOSEPHINE

FASHION IS CIVILIZATION.  1/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – by  Anne Higonnet (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Equality-Fashion-Styled-Revolution/dp/0393867951

Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Térézia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries...

PREVIEW POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Author Jonathan Healey, "The Blazing World," presents the contest between the monarch demanding money and the parliament refusing taxation that is the driver of the Enlightenment revolutions and violence. More.
1649

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  8/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.

In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own...

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  7/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  6/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  5/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  4/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  3/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:   2/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

250 YEARS ISN'T THE EXPECTED LIFESPAN OF A REPUBLIC:  1/8: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
https://www.amazon.com/Travels-George-Search-Washington-Legacy/dp/0525562176/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.

In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own...

PREVIEW FRANCE: Author Anne Higonnet, "Liberty, Equality, Fashion," reports how the turmoil of the revolution produced rethinking of fashion as well. More.
1807 JOSEPHINE

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 8/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 7/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1911 THE NOTORIOUS AGRIPPINA MINOR

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 6/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
UNDATED ROMAN WOMEN

IVES OF THE ROMANS: 5/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1573

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 4/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1573 THE CELEBRATED ROMAN WOMEN

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 3/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1802 ROMAN WOMEN

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 2/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)
1530 SABINE WOMEN

WIVES OF THE ROMANS: 1/8: The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World Hardcover – July 30, 2024
by  Daisy Dunn  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Missing-Thread-Womens-History-Ancient/dp/0593299663

Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to belie...

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 8/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1860 COOK MONUMENT

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 7/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

2820

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 6/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1815

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 5/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1781

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 4/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1784

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 3/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1904 MERCURY BAY NEW ZEALAND

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 2/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1909

WAITING FOR THE CAPTAIN COOK OF MARS: 1/8: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Hardcover – April 9, 2024 by  Hampton Sides  (Author)

1930 COOK

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On July 12th, 1776, Captain Jame...

PREVIEW CLEOPATRA: Author Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread," comments on the fact that Cleopatra was powerful not because of her beauty but rather because of her "aura". More.
1650

PREVIEW FATE: Author Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread," explains how the weaving talent by women in the home became a metaphor of fate.
1896 ROMAN MATRON