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England Under the Tudors book cover

1st Edition

England Under the Tudors

By G.R. Elton Copyright 2019
554 Pages
by Routledge

554 Pages
by Routledge

554 Pages
by Routledge
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‘Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions’ mouths.’ G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in... Read more

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition – Diarmaid MacCulloch

Preface to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

List of maps and diagrams

  1. The Tudor Problem

  2. Henry VII: Securing the Dynasty

  3. Henry VII: Restoration of Government

  4. The Great Cardinal

  5. The King’s Great Matter

  6. Thomas Cromwell and the Break with Rome

  7. The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth

  8. The Crisis of the Tudors, 1540-58

  9. England During the Price Revolution

  10. The Elizabethan Settlement

  11. The Growing Conflict, 1568-85

  12. Seapower

  13. War, 1585-1603

  14. The Structure of the Age: Conservatism

  15. The Structure of the Age: Renaissance

  16. The Last Years

  17. Revisions (1990)

Bibliography

Index

Biography

G.R.Elton (1921–1994) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Renowned as one of the leading historians of his era and the author of many influential books on the Tudor period, he was also a defender of a traditional, factual-based view of history. He was famous for his role in the influential ‘Carr–Elton Debate’ in the 1960s, where he argued for a scientific approach to history against the historian E.H.Carr’s more relativistic view.

‘The best full-length introductory history of the Tudor period…Written with great verve, it will delight both the scholar and the general reader.’ – The Spectator

‘Witty, muscular, clear and above everything else, readable.’ – Times Educational Supplement

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