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| Preface | |
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| The Land and The People | |
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| The Earliest Inhabitants | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution | |
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| The Early Bronze Age | |
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| Stonehenge | |
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| The Late Bronze Age | |
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| The Celts | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Roman Britain: 55 b.c.e.-450 c.e. | |
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| Hadrian's Wall | |
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| The Roman Town | |
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| The Countryside | |
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| The Collapse of Roman Rule | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Anglo-Saxon England: 450-1066 | |
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| The Conquest of Britain | |
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| The Conversion to Christianity | |
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| The Creation of the English Monarchy | |
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| Alfred the Great and his Successors | |
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| Anglo-Saxon Government | |
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| The Structure of Society | |
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| Open Fields and Royal Boroughs | |
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| Monasticism and Learning | |
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| The Survival of the English Monarchy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Norman England The Conquest of England Feudalism | |
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| Domesday Book and the Manors of England The Norman Church | |
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| The Machinery of Government | |
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| Tyranny and Anarchy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Angevins | |
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| The New Agriculture | |
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| Wool, Trade, and Towns | |
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| The Twelfth-Century Renaissance | |
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| The English Common Law | |
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| Henry II and the Church | |
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| The Angevin Empire | |
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| Wales, Ireland, and Scotland Richard I and King John | |
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| Magna Carta | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Thirteenth Century: 1216-1307 | |
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| Barons and Knights | |
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| Manor and Village town and Guild | |
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| Bishops, Priests, and Friars | |
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| The Cathedral | |
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| The University | |
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| Henry III and the Provisions of Oxford | |
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| Edward I and Statute Law | |
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| Wales, Gascony, and Scotland The Origins of Parliament | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| War And Crisis: 1307-1399 | |
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| Edward II and the Barons | |
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| Edward III and the Hundred Years' War | |
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| The Evolution of Parliament | |
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| The Transformation of the Manor | |
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| The Impact of the Black Death | |
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| The Peasants' Revolt | |
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| John Wyclif and Lollardy | |
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| The Emergence of an English Nationality | |
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| Richard II and the Defeat of Absolutism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Lancaster and York: 1399-1485 | |
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| Henry IV and the Foundations of Lancastrian Rule | |
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| Henry V and the War in France | |
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| Henry VI and the Decline of the Monarchy 196 | |
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| The Wars of the Roses 199 | |
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| Edward IV and the Restoration of Royal Power 202 | |
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| Depression and Economic Change 205 | |
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| Late Medieval Culture | |
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| Richard III and the Fall of the House of York | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Reign Of Henry VII: 1485-1509 | |
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| Engrossment and Enclosure | |
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| Industry: Urban and Rural | |
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| Commerce: Foreign and Domestic | |
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| The Consolidation of Power | |
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| The Revival of Royal Power | |
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| The New Learning | |
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| Medieval and Modern | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| War and Reformation: 1509-1547 | |
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| War and Diplomacy | |
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| The Divorce | |
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| Parliament and the Break with Rome | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| The Dissolution of the Monasteries | |
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| The Tudor Revolution in Government | |
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| Scotland and France | |
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| The Growth of Protestantism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Protestant and Catholic: 1547-1558 | |
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| Somerset and Reform | |
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| Ket's Rebellion | |
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| The Economic Crisis of 1551 | |
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| The Ascendancy of Northumberland The Accession of Queen Mary | |
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| The Return to Rome | |
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| The Spanish Connection | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Elizabethan England: 1558-1603 | |
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| Elizabeth and the Church | |
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| Elizabeth and Scotland The Catholic Threat | |
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| The Puritan Threat | |
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| Economic Recovery | |
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| The Voyages of Discovery | |
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| The War Against Spain | |
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| Elizabeth and the Government of England The Rise of the Gentry | |
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| Yeomen and Husbandmen | |
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| Beggars and Vagabonds | |
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| The Ascendancy of London | |
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| The Elizabethan World Picture | |
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| Postlude | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Early Stuart England: 1603-1640 | |
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| The Accession of James I | |
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| James and the Law | |
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| Government by Court Favorites | |
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| Charles I and the Arts | |
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| Charles I and Parliament | |
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| The Eleven Years of Prerogative Government | |
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| Economic Depression | |
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| The Expansion of England Further Reading | |
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| The English Revolution: 1640-1660 | |
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| The Causes of the English Revolution | |
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| The Failure of Reform | |
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| Roundheads and Cavaliers | |
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| The Rise of Independency | |
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| The Commonwealth | |
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| The Triumph of Property | |
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| Overseas Expansion | |
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| The Search for Consent | |
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| The Restoration | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Restoration and Revolution: 1660-1689 | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| Causes and Consequences | |
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| Restoration Society | |
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| Rural Society | |
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| The Restoration Settlement | |
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| The Failure of the Restoration Settlement | |
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| The Reign of James II | |
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| The Glorious Revolution | |
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| The Revolutionary Settlement | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| War and Society | |
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| The War of the League of Augsburg | |
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| The Financial Revolution | |
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| The Politics of War and Peace | |
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| The War of the Spanish Succession | |
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| The Politics of Victory | |
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| The New World of Trade | |
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| The Social Pyramid | |
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| The Augustan Age | |
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| Marriage, Courtship, and the Family | |
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| The Act of Union with Scotland The Treaty of Utrecht | |
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| The Hanoverian Succession | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |