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Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.'Washington Post From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two dynasties. First, the Tudors, who had won the crown on the battlefield, changed both the nature of kingship and the nation itself. England became Protestant and began to establish itself as a trading power; facing down seemingly impossible odds, it defeated its enemies on land and sea. But after a century, Elizabeth I died with no heir and the crown was passed to the Stuarts, who sought to remould the kingdom in their own image. Leading authority on the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Ronald Hutton brilliantly recreates the political landscape of this early modern period and shows how the modern nation was forged in these febrile, transformative years. Combining skilful pen portraits of the leading figures of the day with descriptions of its culture, economics and vivid accounts of everyday life, Hutton provides telling insights into this critical period on Britain's national hi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ronald Hutton
- Publisher
- Flycatcher (an Imprint of Robinson Publishing)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781845297046
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities
Other editions & translations
- A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties (Brief Histories) (2011)
- A Brief History of Britain 02 1485-1660: The Tudor & Stuart Dynasties (2011)
- A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660 : The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties (2011)
- A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851: The Making of the Nation (Brief Histories) (2010)
- A Brief History of 1485 - 1660 Britain: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties (2010)
- A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties (Brief Histories) (1991)