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Authors: Robert Bucholz,Newton Key
Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History
Contents
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
Introduction
General
Pre-Tudor (1400s–1485)
Tudor (1485–1603)
Stuart (1603–1714)
Documents and Other Primary Sources
1 The Yorkists and Lancastrians
2 The Tudors and Stuarts
3 The Stuarts and Hanoverians
To our parents, with gratitude and love
Lillian Aguirre Bucholz in memory of Robert Edward Bucholz
Cornelia Buck Key
H. Newton Key
This second edition first published 2009
© 2009 Robert Bucholz and Newton Key
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