Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative HistoryThe second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.
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Contents
The British Isles physical today | 2 |
The counties of England and Wales before 1972 | 8 |
Towns and trade | 17 |
Diagram of an English manor | 19 |
The Wars of the Roses 145585 | 34 |
Southern England and western France during the later Middle Ages | 35 |
Henry VII painted terracotta bust by Pietro Torrigiano | 43 |
Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger | 55 |
George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham by William Larkin | 226 |
Charles I by Van Dyck | 231 |
The Bishops Wars and Civil Wars 163760 | 253 |
The execution of Charles I | 263 |
Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker 1649 | 271 |
The entrance of Charles II at the Restoration 1660 | 276 |
Charles II as Patron of the Royal Society by Laroon | 284 |
Western Europe in the age of Louis XIV | 291 |
Europe ca 1560 | 61 |
Diagram of the interior of a church before and after the Reformation | 73 |
Early modern Ireland | 86 |
Mary I by Moro | 109 |
J Foxe Acts and Monuments titlepage 1641 edition | 113 |
Elizabeth I The Ditchley Portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ca 1592 | 117 |
Spanish possessions in Europe and the Americas | 131 |
First Encounter Between the English and Spanish Fleets from J Pine The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engage... | 141 |
War in Europe 15851604 | 143 |
Hatfield House south prospect by Thomas Sadler 1700 | 170 |
Tudor farmhouse at Ystradfaelog Llanwnnog Montgomeryshire photo and groundplan | 177 |
Londonca 1600 | 197 |
Visschers panorama of London 1616 detail | 198 |
A view of Westminster by Hollar | 199 |
James I by van Somer | 218 |
James II by unknown artist | 302 |
Mary of Modena in Childbed Italian engraving | 306 |
Presentation of the Crown to William III and Mary | 310 |
War and Politics 16891714 | 315 |
Queen Anne by Edmund Lilly | 332 |
The War of the Spanish Succession 170214 | 333 |
The battle of Blenheim | 339 |
Fighting in a coffeehouse after the trial of Dr Sacheverell | 345 |
The Atlantic world after the Treaty of Utrecht 1713 | 349 |
Augustan Polity Society and Culture ca 1714 | 353 |
Castle Howard engraving | 366 |
Notes | 392 |
Glossary | 406 |
The Yorkists and Lancastrians | 429 |
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