Early Modern England 1485-1714 : A Narrative History.

Intro -- Contents -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright -- List of Plates -- List of Maps -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Introduction: England and its People, ca. 1485 -- This Sceptered Isle -- This Seat of Mars - and Less Happier Lands -- This England -- This Happy Breed -- The Mental World of the English People, ca. 1485 -- Chapter One: Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485-1525 -- The Wars of the Roses, 1455-85 -- Establishing the Tudor State -- Young King Hal -- The Great Cardinal -- War and Diplomacy -- Chapter Two: (Dis-)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525-1536 -- The King's Great Matter -- The Attack on the Church -- The Royal Supremacy -- Reaction -- A Tudor Revolution? -- Chapter Three: Reformations and Counter-Reformations, 1536-1558 -- Catholic or Protestant? -- Marriage, Succession, and Foreign Policy -- Henry VIII's Last Years -- The New King, the Lord Protector, and the Legacy of Henry VIII -- Northumberland and the Protestant Reformation -- Mary I and Marital Diplomacy -- Catholic Restoration -- Foreign Policy and the Succession -- Chapter Four: The Elizabethan Settlement and its Challenges, 1558-1585 -- The New Queen -- Cecil vs. Dudley -- Marital Diplomacy I -- The Religious Settlement -- The Puritan Challenge -- The Catholic Threat -- England and Scotland -- England and Spain -- Plots and Counter-Plots -- Marital Diplomacy II -- Chapter Five: The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585-1603 -- What about Mary? -- The Spanish Armada -- The War at Sea and on the Continent -- The War(s) in Ireland -- Crises of the 1590s -- Chapter Six: Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603 -- Population Expansion and Economic Crisis -- The Social Order -- The Gender Order -- Elite Private Life -- Commoners' Private Life -- Religion.

Paternalism and Deference -- Kinship and Neighborliness -- Poverty and Charity -- Law and (Dis)order -- Trade, Exploration, and Colonization -- Cultural Life -- Chapter Seven: The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642 -- The Problem of Government Finance -- The Problem of Foreign Policy, War, and England's Place in Europe -- The Problem of Religion -- The Personal Rule and the Problem of Local Authority -- The Crisis of Scotland -- The Long Parliament -- The Crisis of Ireland -- Chapter Eight: Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642-1660 -- Rebellion, 1642-6 -- Revolution, 1646-9 -- The Radical Hydra? -- Commonwealth, Protectorate, and the Search for Stability, 1649-58 -- The Restoration, 1658-60 -- Chapter Nine: Restoration and Revolution, 1660-1689 -- The Restoration Settlements, 1660-5 -- Charles II and the Unraveling of the Restoration Settlements -- Problems of Sovereignty, Finance, Religion, and Foreign Policy, 1660-70 -- The Declaration of Indulgence and the Third Dutch War, 1670-3 -- The Earl of Danby and the Court and Country Blocs, 1673-8 -- The Popish Plot, Exclusion Crisis, and Loss of Local Control, 1678-81 -- The Tory Revenge and Reestablishment of Local Control, 1681-5 -- James II and the Attempt at a Catholic Restoration, 1685-8 -- The Glorious Revolution, 1688-9 -- Chapter Ten: War and Politics, 1689-1714 -- William III, Mary II, and the English People -- The Revolution in Scotland and Ireland, 1688-92 -- The War and the Parties, 1688-97 -- The Rise of the Whig Junto, 1693-97 -- The Tory Resurgence, 1697-1701 -- The Spanish and English Successions, 1700-2 -- Anne and the Rage of Party -- The War, the Union, and the Parties, 1702-10 -- The Queen's Revenge, 1710 -- The Treaty of Utrecht, 1710-13 -- The Oxford Ministry, 1710-14 -- Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714.

Introduction: England and its People, ca. 1485 -- 1 Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485-1525 -- 2 (Dis-)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525-1536 -- 3 Reformations and Counter-Reformations, 1536-1558 -- 4 The Elizabethan Settlement and its Challenges, 1558-1585 -- 5 The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585-1603 -- 6 Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603 -- 7 The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642 -- 8 Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642-1660 -- 9 Restoration and Revolution, 1660-1689 -- 10 War and Politics, 1689-1714 -- Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Introduction -- General -- Pre-Tudor (1400s-1485) -- Tudor (1485-1603) -- Stuart (1603-1714) -- Documents and Other Primary Sources -- Appendix: Genealogies -- Genealogy 1 The Yorkists and Lancastrians -- Genealogy 2 The Tudors and Stuarts -- Genealogy 3 The Stuarts and Hanoverians -- Index.

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