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xvi, 440 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm. |
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The Short Oxford history of the modern world |
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Short Oxford history of the modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-403) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Tudor England, 1509-1603 -- Introductory -- The economy in the sixteenth century -- Social classes and their fortunes -- England and Europe -- Government finance -- The constitution -- The courts -- The church before the Reformation -- 2. Henry VIII and the pope, 1509-1536 -- The French wars -- The divorce -- 3. State of flux, 1536-1570 -- The government and its subjects -- The royal supremacy -- The reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553 -- The reign of Mary I, 1553-1558 -- The reign of Elizabeth I to 1570 -- 4. Puritanism and fashion, 1570-1640 -- Puritanism and its background -- Fashionable society -- Economic change -- Stresses and strains: Conservatism in a changing world -- 5. The price of victory, 1570-1618 -- England before the Armada, 1570-1588 -- War finance, 1588-1603 -- The price of victory: the reign of James I to 1618 -- 6. The reigns of Buckingham and Charles, 1618-1642 -- Buckingham and James, 1618-1625 -- Buckingham and Charles, 1625-1629 -- Rule without Parliament, 1629-1640 -- The drift to war, 1637-1642 -- 7. England's new chains discovered, 1642-1660 -- Royalists and Parliamentarians -- The Civil War, 1642-1645 -- Post-war England, 1645-1660 -- The search for a settlement, 1645-1653 -- Cromwellian England, 1653-1660. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1649.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660.
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1485-1660
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| ISBN |
0199130337 |
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9780199130337 |
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0195014421 |
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9780195014426 |
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0199130345 |
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9780199130344 |
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