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The New World: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, by Winston S. Churchill

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By Winston S. Churchill

Within the 16th and 17th centuries England underwent a startling sequence of modifications. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the expansion of strong monarchies, the English Civil battle, and the colonization of the recent global. within the New global, the second one quantity of his heritage of the English talking Peoples, Sir Winston Churchill grew to become his substantial rhetorical and analytical acumen to weaving a compelling and insightful narrative of those formative centuries. writer: Winston Churchill layout: four hundred pages, paperback writer: Barnes amp Noble ISBN: 9780760768587

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It ended only after Central Europe had been wrecked by the Thirty Years War, and the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 terminated a struggle whose starting-point had been almost forgotten. It was not until the nineteenth century that a greater sense of toleration based upon mutual reverence and respect ruled the souls of men throughout the Christian world. A well-known Victorian divine and lecturer, Charles Beard, in the 1880舗s poses some blunt questions. Was, then, the Reformation, from the intellectual point of view, a failure?

By channels which multiplied gold and silver flowed into Europe. So did new commodities, tobacco, potatoes, and American sugar. The old continent to which these new riches came was itself undergoing a transformation. After a long halt its population was again growing and production on the farms and in the workshops was expanding. There was a widespread demand for more money to pay for new expeditions, new buildings, new enterprises, and new methods of government. The manipulation of finance was little understood either by rulers or by the mass of the people, and the first recourse of impoverished princes was to debase their currency.

But the main function of the King舗s Council was to govern rather than to judge. The choice of members lay with the monarch. Even when chosen they could not attend of right; they could be dismissed instantly; meanwhile they could stop any action in any court in England and transfer it to themselves, arrest anyone, torture anyone. A small inner committee conducted foreign affairs. Another managed the finances, hacking a new path through the cumbrous practices of the medieval Exchequer; treasurers were now appointed who were answerable personally to the King.

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