Tudor Empire : The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485-1603

Jessica S. Hower

ISBN 10: 3030628914 / ISBN 13: 9783030628918

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I. Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by focusing on another facet of the British past that has exercised an equally powerful grip on audiences: imperialism. It argues that the sixteenth century was pivotal to the making of both Britain and the British Empire. Unearthing over a century of theorizing about and probing into the world beyond England's borders, Tudor Empire shows that foreign enterprise at once mirrored, responded to, and provoked domestic politics and culture, while decisively shaping the Atlantic World. Demonstrating that territorial expansion abroad and national consolidation and identity formation at home were concurrent, intertwined, and mutually reinforcing, the author examines some of the earliest ventures undertaken by the crown and its subjects in France, Scotland, Ireland, and the Americas. Tudor Empire is a thought-provoking, essential read for those interested in the Tudors and the British Empire that they helped create.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tudor Empire : The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485-1603
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030628914
• ISBN 13: 9783030628918
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 28D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I. Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by focusing on another facet of the British past that has exercised an equally powerful grip on audiences: imperialism. It argues that the sixteenth century was pivotal to the making of both Britain and the British Empire. Unearthing over a century of theorizing about and probing into the world beyond England’s borders, Tudor Empire shows that foreign enterprise at once mirrored, responded to, and provoked domestic politics and culture, while decisively shaping the Atlantic World. Demonstrating that territorial expansion abroad and national consolidation and identity formation at home were concurrent, intertwined, and mutually reinforcing, the author examines some of the earliest ventures undertaken by the crown and its subjects in France, Scotland, Ireland, and the Americas. Tudor Empire is a thought-provoking, essential read for those interested in the Tudors and the British Empire that they helped create.

About the Author

​Jessica S. Hower is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University, USA, where she teaches courses on Britain and Ireland, comparative colonialism, gender, and memory. Her research has appeared in Rethinking History, To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, and Britain and the World. Jessica is also co-editor of a forthcoming two-volume collection of essays on Mary I.