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A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (A History of Britain, #2) by Simon Schama, Simon Schama is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Inside these pages lies the bloody epic of liberty, the British Iliad. The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars -- full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes -- startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islands -- Ireland, England, and Scotland -- and between parliament and the crown. Shattering the illusion of a "united kingdom," they cost hundreds of thousands of lives: a greater proportion of the population than died in the First World War. When religious passion gave way to the equally consuming passion for profits, it became possible for the pieces of Britain to come together as the spectacularly successful business enterprise of "Britannia Incorporated." And in a few generations that business state expanded in a dizzying process that transformed what had been an obscure, off-shore footnote to Europe's great powers into the main event -- the most powerful empire in the world. Yet somehow, it was the "wrong empire." The British considered it a bastion of liberty, yet it was based on military force and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of
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- Author
- Simon Schama, Simon Schama
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780563384977
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (558 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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