The Struggle for Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts

by Joyce Lee Malcolm

Book Overview

For much of Europe the seventeenth century was, as it has been termed, an "Age of Absolutism" in which single rulers held tremendous power. Yet the English in the same century succeeded in limiting the power of their monarchs. The English Civil War in midcentury and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings eager to consolidate and even extend their power and subjects who were eager to identify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865971897
• ISBN13: 9780865971899
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 1180 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5