The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.
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... Henry VIII's loans , the major development was to abandon static rates of tax and stereotyped assessments of wealth in favour of a graduated income tax , whereby individual taxpayers were assessed individually by royal commissioners ...
... Henry VII's achievements in restoring royal authority both at home and abroad that when he died in 1509 , his son became the first king to succeed to the English crown unopposed since 1421. Henry VIII , however , was a very different ...
... Henry prepared a major expeditionary force to invade northern France from his Calais bridgehead , while his allies Ferdinand and Maximilian were to dismember France from the south and north - east . Both Edward IV and Henry VII had ...
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 Steven G. Ellis No preview available - 2007 |