State Formation in Early Modern England, C.1550-1700

by Michael J. Braddick

Book Overview

The seventeenth century has always been seen as important for the development of the modern English state. Over the past twenty years, however, this view has been criticized heavily and no general account of the development of the state in this period has yet emerged. On the basis of a wide-ranging synthesis of specialist work in diverse fields of English, British and colonial history, this book makes a novel argument about the modernization of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521789559
• ISBN13: 9780521789554
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"