'Portraits of turbulence and conflicts of the past help put a chaotic present in context.' Brendan Simms selects this season’s best history books.
years have been a difficult time for supporters of the Anglo-American model of politics, whose traditions include compromise and what Walter Bagehot called “discussion.” The Brexit vote in 2016 ushered in a period of political rancor for Britain, and the election of Donald Trump set off the furies in U.S. politics. Luckily there have been superb history books in the past year to turn to for solace and instruction—and for a reminder that bitter division is not a permanent condition.
Clare Jackson’s “Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688” gives a portrait of England between the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. During much of that time, England was regarded as a failed state—in the words of a contemporary observer, the “Devil’s Land.
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