Gavin Robinson: 2 books
Horses, People and Parliament in the English Civil War
Extracting Resources and Constructing Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England. This book uses the supply of horses to parliamentary armies during the English Civil War to make two related points. Firstly it shows how control of resources - although vital to success - is...
War of the Encyclopaedists
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge—one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq.
On a summer night in 2004,...