{"product_id":"devil-land","title":"Devil Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmong foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as \u003ci\u003eDevil-Land: A Diabolical Country of Fallen Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. \u003c\/b\u003eClare Jackson''s dazzling, original account of English history''s most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent, unable to manage their three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevil-Land\u003c\/i\u003e reveals England as, in many ways, a ''failed state'': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada''s descent in 1588 and concluding with a not-so ''Glorious Revolution'' a hundred years later, \u003ci\u003eDevil-Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular reinterpretation of England''s vexed and enthralling past.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313171800446,"sku":"NW9780141984575","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141984575.jpg?v=1778513093","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/devil-land","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}