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Oliver Cromwell (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By Frederic Harrison

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On Sale
Feb 28, 2012
Page Count
356 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411458345

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$1.99

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$2.99 CAD

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ebook (Digital original)

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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) orchestrated the overthrow of the English monarchy and for a time turned England into a republican Commonwealth. This riveting history sweeps the reader through the Lord Protector’s early life and marriage, two civil wars, campaigns in Ireland and Scotland, his foreign and domestic policies, and the sickness and death of England’s unofficial dictator. The Times approved of the book’s vivid writing, interesting speculation, and the author’s portrait of Cromwell as he would have “desired to be painted.”


Frederic Harrison

About the Author

Frederic Harrison (1831-1923) was a British historian, literary critic, and jurist.  A prominent follower and defender of Positivist philosophy, he is best known today for two essay collections, The Choice of Books (1886) and Early Victorian Literature (1896), and for his autobiography, The Creed of Layman (1907

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