1688

A Global History

Plot

'I have never read a book like this. 1688 opens with Father Coronelli's magnificent world maps, triumphs of 17th century cartography, and closes with Henry's Purcell's moving anthem on family and mortality. In between, Wills examines what certain men and women from around the world thought, wrote, and did in the span of the year 1688, and brings them all alive' (Geoffrey Parker)