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The Altar and the Covenant: Charles I, Archbishop Laud, and the Breaking of the Church
How a programme of order and ceremony imposed from above broke the church in three kingdoms and put an archbishop at the bar: 1632 to 1644
Popish Soap: Charles I, and the Westminster Soap Monopoly
A royal patent on the most common necessity of life, the laundresses who judged it and found it wanting, and the Parliament that taxed it instead: 1632 to 1644
The Longest Occupation and the Narrowest Vote: New York's Road to Statehood
How seven years of British occupation made New York a self-reliant state, and why it joined the Union at Poughkeepsie by three votes: 1776 to 1788
Yelps for Liberty: Slavery and the Language of Freedom in the British Empire
How the language of liberty turned against the men who used it, from one day's business at the Board of Trade to Dunmore's proclamation: 1763 to 1775
The Sons of Liberty in New York
How a waterfront crowd in New York City became an organized movement and then something close to a government, from the Stamp Act riots to the royal governor's flight aboard ship: 1763 to 1775
The King's Declaration and the Village Wake: The Book of Sports
How a county order about parish feasts became a royal command read from every pulpit, and then a book burned by the hangman: 1632 to 1644
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