{"product_id":"9780141988696","title":"Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs) : England's Protector (Penguin Monarchs)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was not a king - in spite of the best efforts of his supporters to crown him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, as David Horspool shows in this illuminating new portrait of England's Lord Protector, Cromwell, the Puritan son of Cambridgeshire gentry, wielded such influence that it would be a pretence to say that power really lay with the collective. The years of Cromwell's rise to power, shaped by a decade-long civil war, saw a sustained attempt at the collective government of England; the first attempts at a real Union of Britain; the beginnings of empire; a radically new solution to the idea of a national religion; atrocities in Ireland; and the readmission to England of the Jews, a people officially banned for over three and a half centuries. At the end of it, Oliver Cromwell had emerged as the country's sole ruler: to his enemies, and probably to most of his countrymen, his legacy looked as likely to last as that of the Stuart dynasty he had replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52929296204085,"sku":"EB_HI0800_J02-06_DUBAI","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780141988696-1.jpg?v=1789399842","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ar\/products\/9780141988696","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}