The Chamdo Raid

JOHN, MILLER

Literature & Fiction

Arrow Books 927940

OCR A Level Advancing Physics Revision Guide

Science & Math

Chemistry

Oxford Secondary

James II (1633–1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his reign, drawing on a wide array of primary sources from France, Italy, and Ireland as well as England. Miller argues that the king had many laudable attributes--he was brave, loyal, honorable, and hard-working, and he was at least as benevolent toward his people as his father had been. Yet James’s conversion to Catholicism fueled the distrust of his Protestant subjects who placed the worst possible construction on his actions and statements. Although James came to see the securing of religious freedom for Catholics in the wider context of freedom for all religious minorities, his people naturally doubted the sincerity of his commitment to toleration. The book explores James’s relations with the state and society, focusing on the political, diplomatic, and religious issues that shaped his reign. Miller discusses the human failings, the gulf of understanding between the king and his subjects, and the sheer bad luck that led to James’s downfall. He also considers the reasons for James’s lack of interest in recovering his kingdom after his flight to France in 1688. This revised edition of the book includes a substantial new foreword assessing recent work on the reign. “This is a first-class essay in historical biography. . . . It must displace all previous lives of James II.”―J. P. Kenyon, Observer

James II (The English Monarchs Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Yale University Press

Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power

In 1985 the Soviet Union was a recognised superpower and its political system, whilst looking clumsy to the outside world, also looked tenacious. Less than seven years later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned, the notorious KGB broken up and the Soviet Union itself dissolved into fifteen independent states.Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power is one of the first books to explore the final years of the Soviet system and Gorbachev's attempts to save it from collapse through internal reforms. The book evaluates Gorbachev's career as Party leader and President (up to December 1991) and assesses the place of perestroika in Russian history. It also analyses features of Gorbachev that puzzled the West, in particular his relationships to communism, revolution, democracy and gradualism; to the Soviet middle classes and intelligentsia; to the Communist Party; and to the national diversity of the former Soviet empire.

History

World

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Absolutism in Seventeenth-century Europe (Problems in Focus)

Europe

In 1985 the Soviet Union was a recognized superpower and its political system, whilst looking clumsy to the outside world, also looked tenacious. Less than seven years later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned, the notorious KGB broken up and the Soviet Union itself dissolved into 15 independent states. This book explores the final years of the Soviet system and Gorbachev's career as party leader and president (up to December 1991) and assesses the place of perestroika in Russian history. The book also analyzes features of Gorbachev that puzzled the West, in particular his relationships to communism, revolution, democracy and gradualism, to the Soviet middle classes and intelligentsia, to the Communist Party, and to the national diversity of the former Soviet empire.

St.Martin's Press

Ralph Richardson was a contradictory genius who remains a legendary power and presence dominated stage and screen for over 50 years. Richardson eschewed most of the romantic heroes that made his two friends, Olivier and Gielgud, famous; he was the only one of the three thought capable of playing the ordinary man. In his search for the man behind the actor`s make-up, the author has talked to Ralph Richardson`s friends and colleagues. From their memories and Richardson`s own words, John Miller has woven a portrait which shows Richardson in all his complexity and reveals the inner drive which took him, against the odds, to the heights of public and critical acclaim. John Miller also disentangles the real from the apocryphal stories of the eccentricity that contributed to the Richardson legend, discovering most to be true and finding new ones. Sir Ralph believed in keeping the secrets of his art from the public, but those secrets he did show to his fellow players are now told in this biography.

Ralph Richardson

Arts & Literature

Macmillan Audio Books

JAMES II

METHUEN

Trumpet Basics Pupil's Book

Faber Music Ltd

Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

University Alabama Press

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