Research Catalog

Title

The emergence of a nation state : the commonwealth of England 1529-1660 / Alan G. R. Smith.

Author

Smith, Alan G. R., 1936-

Publication

London ; New York : Longman, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 487 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This famous survey has been updated to incorporate the new perspectives of the last twelve years. The study opens with one Revolution, the Reformation, and closes with another - the Civil War of the mid-17th century and the abolition of the monarchy. Alan Smith explores the dramatic changes during this period when the country was forged into a '`nation state." Its centrepiece however, remains the extraordinary achievements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean age, and these glories are given full treatment in this masterly account.--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Foundations of modern Britain

Uniform Title

Foundations of modern Britain

Subject

• 1485 - 1714
• Geschichte 1529-1660
• Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603
• Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714
• England > Civilization > 16th century
• England > Civilization > 17th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. An Age of Revolution: The Era of the Reformation, 1529-1558 -- Prologue -- England in 1529: Church, State and society. 1. The breach with Rome: origins and accomplishment to 1536. 2. The progress of the Reformation, 1536-1547. 3. Cromwell and the government of the realm: administrative change in England, Wales and Ireland. 4. Social reform in the reign of Henry VIII: Cromwell and the English 'commonwealth'. 5. England, Scotland and the Continent: foreign policy during the Henrician Reformation, 1525-1540. 6. Mid-Tudor crisis? The economy, war and society 1540-1560. 7. Mid-Tudor crisis? Foreign policy and faction in the later years of Henry VIII. 8. Mid-Tudor crisis? Edward VI: the rule of Somerset. 9. Mid-Tudor crisis? Edward VI: the Northumberland regime. 10. Mid-Tudor crisis? The reign of Mary. 11. The early Tudor revolution: the significance of the Reformation era, 1529-1558 -- pt. 2. An Age of Conservatism: The Elizabethan Achievement, 1558-1585.

ISBN

0582238889

LCCN

^^^96009744^

OCLC

• 35018165
• SCSB-12452160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library