Jenny Wormald (ed.)

The Seventeenth Century

Herausgeber: Wormald, Jenny

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout, the book maintains a careful balance, focusing on the ways in which the various tensions within each individual kingdom came together, whilst at the same time looking beyond the confines of any one of the kingdoms and recognizing their interlinking 'British' impact.

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The ninth volume to be published in the "Short History Of The British Isles" series.

Produktdetails

• Short Oxford History of the Br
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780198731610
• ISBN-10: 0198731612
• Artikelnr.: 22573895

Autorenporträt

Jenny Wormald is an Honorary Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hilda's College. Her publications include Mary, Queen of Scots (Tauris Parke 2000), Court, Kirk and Community (Edinburgh University Press, 1991) and her volume on The Seventeenth Century in the Hutchinson History of Britain Series is forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Keith M. Brown: Monarchy and the Government in Britain, 1603-1637
* 2: John McCafferty: The Churches and Peoples of the Three Kingdoms,
1603-1641
* 3: John Morrill: The Rule of Saints and Soldiers: The Wars of
Religion in Britain and Ireland 1638-1660
* 4: Toby Barnard: Restoration or Initiation?
* 5: J. A. Sharpe: The Economic and Social Context
* 6: Clare McManus: 'What ish my Nation?': The Cultures of the
Seventeenth-Century British Isles
* Conclusion
* Further Reading
* Chronology
* Maps
* Index