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Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 30.99Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England. Examples are drawn from a broad range of source, including royal portraits, architecture, coins and medals and written texts.This is a volume that presents the history of society and state as a cultural as well... more...
Early Modern England 1485-1714
Wiley 2013; US$ 57.95The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. Written by two leading scholars and experienced... more...
Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 175.00Published in he year 1967, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds is a valuable contribution to the field of History. more...
A New History of England
The History Press 2013; US$ 14.57Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first century in somewhat reduced circumstances. In his New History of England, leading historian Jeremy Black takes a cool and dispassionate look at the vicissitudes of over two millennia of English history. Professor Black steers his... more...
The Name of a Queen
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00A critical edition of William Fleetwood's landmark Itinerarium ad Windsor. more...
The Georgian Princesses
The History Press 2013; US$ 11.65A chronological account of the princesses and consort Queens of the Georgian era. From Sophia who died shortly before she would have become Queen as heir to Queen Anne, to Adelaide, consort to William IV whose failure to provide an heir ensured the succession passed to his niece Queen Victoria. During this period, an array of colourful personalities... more...
A Companion to the Royal Heritage of Britain
The History Press 2013; US$ 36.46More than a biography of kings and queens, this title is an encyclopaedic work on every aspect of monarchy in Britain from semi-legendary times to the present day. more...
The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy 1491-1499
The History Press 2013; US$ 18.94Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk, the younger of the two sons of Edward IV imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III, and whose true fate is unknown to this day. He led two attempts to claim the crown, but was captured by Henry VII and hanged at Tyburn. This book looks... more...
Elizabeth I
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 9.99The story of Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, is one of enduring fascination. Daughter of the tyrannical Henry VIII and sister of the embittered Queen Mary, Elizabeth did well to survive her childhood. Clever, learned and skilled in diplomacy, as queen she presided over a golden age of literature, exploration and discovery. A selective version... more...
The Children of Henry VIII
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 24.99Behind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama.Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth... more...









