| Review“Scholars and students who want to commence to master early innovative England need look no further. Bucholz and Key’s book is the text to study and know. It is difficult to convey how utile this text is—from it is concise prose to it is utile charts and graphs to it is glossary and select bibliography, Bucholz and Key have done an admirable job.” (Scholars’ Book Talk, March 2009)
Praise for the initial edition:
“This splendid book is consciously designed for students in North American universities who are studying this amount of time for the introductory time, but it is calibers are such that British students will find it a to an outstanding degree effective and well-sustained synthesis. The narrative is readable, fluent and balanced … Throughout, the authors, both of whom are vastly experienced teachers as well as being active exploration scholars, have managed to delineate detail efficaciously without obscuring the narrative flow … It is, as they say in their conclusion, ‘a terrific story’, and they have told it marvelously well.” (History)
“Complementing it is accessibility, Early Modern England is comprehensive and unfeigned to recent scholarly conclusions. Bucholz and Key have formulated a utile narrative for the present generation of those being introduced to English history in the period. It is engaging from introductory to last and merits close review by faculty throughout the United States seeking a strong classroom text.” (Albion)
“Robert Bucholz and Newton Key have written Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History to fill the need for an authoritative, one volume textbook covering the Tudor and Stuart eras that is written specially for an American audience. They have succeeded in their goal.” (H-Albion)
“Early Modern England is informative and a pleasure to read.” (Sixteenth Century Journal)
From the Back CoverEarly Modern England, 1485–1714: A Narrative History is a lively, up-to-date survey of the Tudor–Stuart period. The narrative shows how England transformed itself from a feudal and comparatively minor European state into a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. The story of struggles over governmental and religious policies is enlivened by clear snapshots of how social and cultural changes affected standard English humans at the beginning, middle, and end of the period. The writers likewise show how Irish, Scottish, and Welsh developments affected English history.
This new edition takes into account recent scholarship on Henry VIII, Commonwealthmen, the Poor Law, and the Interregnum, and it extends coverage of the Reformations allround the British Isles, as well as the European, Scottish, and Irish contexts of the Restoration and Revolution of 1688-9. There is likewise a new division on women’s roles and the historiography of women and gender.
Written by two leading scholars and experienced teachers of the subject, Early Modern England assumes no prior psychological result of perception learning and reasoning of English history. Student aids to the text include maps, illustrations, and genealogies.
About the AuthorRobert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993) and, with Sir John Sainty, Officials of the Royal Household 1660–1837 (2 volumes, 1997–8). He has written articles on Queen Anne and the court.
Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on provincial and metropolitan politicking in Stuart England and Wales. He is presently at work on a study of patrician/plebeian politics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London.
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