The Emergence of a Nation State: The Commonwealth of England 1529-1660

by Alan Gordon Rae Smith

Book Overview

This famous survey has been updated to incorporate the new perspectives of the last twelve years. The study opens with one Revolution, the Reformation, and closes with another - the Civil War of the mid-17th century and the abolition of the monarchy. Alan Smith explores the dramatic changes during this period when the country was forged into a ' nation state." Its centrepiece however, remains the extraordinary achievements of the Elizabethan and Jacobean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138174017
• ISBN13: 9781138174016
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good text

This was a textbook for a class I took a while ago, but I remember it being a good one and pretty easy to understand.