The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660

ISBN-13: 9780333698365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 439 str.

Philip Edwards

Opis

1460-1660 was a dramatic and crucially formative period in the emergence of the modern English state, language and identity. It encompassed the reigns of the last Plantagenets, the Tudors and the early Stuarts, as well as the victory of Parliament over the King in the Great Civil War and the amazing experiment of the Puritan Republic. The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity. It is both an up-to-date narrative of the growth of the English state and an invaluable guide to recent historiography.

Spis treści

Prologue.- Genealogy: Houses of Lancaster and York.- The Wars of the Roses.- The Restored Monarchy.- Genealogy: House of Tudor (Richmond).- The Reign of Henry VIII.- The Henrician Reformation.- Mid-Tudor Turbulence.- The Reign of Elizabeth I.- Genealogy: House of Stuart.- The Coming of the Stuarts: James I.- The Reign of Charles I to 1640.- The Coming of War.- The British Civil Wars, 1642-51.- The English Republic.- Epilogue: The Restoration and Beyond.- Notes.- Index.

O autorze

PHILIP EDWARDS is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.