Reviews for Paradoxes of Peace

The average rating for Paradoxes of Peace based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-31 00:00:00 Leroy Blair An excellent narrative of the chain of events by which Samuel Pepys was imprisoned in the Tower of London as part of the Popish Plot hysteria of 1679 - a truly horrible moment of witch-hunting against Catholics and suspected allies of the Duke of York, the heir to the throne, who had been exiled from England because of his religion. Faced by false accusers who had powerful political allies, Pepys' life was clearly in danger; but he cooly assembled evidence in his own defence and was able to hang on until the political wind changed in his favour. A very nice micro-study of how a well-known set of political events affected a well-known figure of the time. Particularly nice to have detail on Pepys' main accuser, an adventurer who had got enmeshed in the politics of Connecticut, Long Island, and New Amsterdam (which had recently been captured by the British and renamed after the Duke of York).

Review # 2 was written on 2010-05-02 00:00:00 Daniel Cary Samuel Pepys was a fairly prominent civil servant concerned with the construction of the ships of the royal navy. His diary has long been an interesting account of life in London in roughly the 1660s. This book tells how he gots caught up in the Popish Plot against Charles II, & a related personal vendetta against him by one John Scott, but manages to survive (only to be removed a 2nd time from the Navy when William [as in William and Mary College:] becomes king).