Download or read book The Making of the Modern English State, 1460-1660 written by Philip Edwards and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2001-01-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1460-1660 was a dramatic and crucially formative period in the emergence of the modern English state, language and identity. It encompassed the reigns of the last Plantagenets, the Tudors and the early Stuarts, as well as the victory of Parliament over the King in the Great Civil War and the amazing experiment of the Puritan Republic. The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity. It is both an up-to-date narrative of the growth of the English state and an invaluable guide to recent historiography.