The History of The Desertion - by Edmund Bohun 1689 - Revolution & Politics

by Edmund Bohun

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THE HISTORY OF THE DESERTION OR, An ACCOUNT of all the Publick Affairs IN ENGLAND From the beginning of September 1688 to the Twelfth of February following WITH AN ANSWER To a Piece call'd The DESERTION Discussed In a LETTER to a Country Gentleman The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged By a Person of Quality London, Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard MDCLXXXIX (1689) Book Size: 19cm X 15cm by Edmund Bohun, written in reply to Jeremy Collier's The Dissertion Discuss'd Edmund Bohun (1645–1699) was an English writer on history and politics. This work became the most famous and notorious, in the explosive pamphlet battle that erupted at this historic time, as Tories and Whigs sought to capture the ideological high ground, by spinning their own interpretation of the events surrounding the deposing of King James II, in favour of William & Mary. Very early edition of the first historical account of the events known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

• Year: 1689
• Condition: Fair

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