Buy this book on-line UGLOW,JENNY: : A GAMBLING MAN:Charles II and the Restoration 1660 - 1670LONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,2009. ISBN 9780571217335.
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with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to
spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark green eps.8vo,v-xi+1-580pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a note on the
text,double-page b/w map,single page map, prologue,Pts I-VI comprising 40 chapters, profuse contemporary b/w illus throughout the text and the book,16pp contemporary colour illus/portraits in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp180/1 and pp340/1 respectively,acknowledgements,abbreviations
+sources,notes,list of illus,an index,plus
[unpaginated]half-title+ title pages,and a dedication.
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.Negotiaiting 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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