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Here, six prominent Tudor historians reconsider the widely held view that the 1530s witnessed a "revolution" in government and administration.This revisionist work not only offers a radical critique of established orthodoxy, but also presents important new interpretations of the history of the royal household, the council, parliament, and financial administration in the 15th and 16th centuries. Contributors to the volume areJ. D. Alsop, Christopher Coleman, J. A. Guy, Dale Hoak, David Starkey, and Jennifer Loach. ... Read more

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This book examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by various beliefs and events outside the social norm. David Cressy employs a series of linked stories and close readings of local texts and narratives to investigate such unorthodox happenings as bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular burial, and nakedness and cross-dressing.

Each story--and the reaction it generated--exposes the strains and stresses of this unique phase of British history. As Cressy points out, the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I saw endless religious disputes, tussles for power within the aristocracy, and countless arguments about the behavior and beliefs of common people. Questions raised by "unnatural" episodes were widely debated at both the local and national levels, and drew the attention of magistrates, bishops, crown, and court. The resolution of such questions was not taken lightly in a world where God and the devil were still fighting for people's souls. ... Read more

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This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.
Entries include:
* Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager]
* Roger Ascham
* Bible translation
* cloth trade
* Devereux family
* Espionage
* Family of Love
* food and diet
* James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
* inns
* Ket's Rebellion
* John Lyly
* mapmaking
* Frances Meres
* miniature painting
* Pavan
* Pilgrimage of Grace
* Revels Office
* Ridolfi plot
* Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
* treason
* and much more. ... Read more

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Surveying the turbulent years of the Napoleonic wars, 1793 to 1815, this masterly chronicle tells the stirring story of the Ship of the Line—the vast, beautiful, and deadly battleships that played a vital role in that titanic conflict. The text adeptly explains the ships’ construction and armaments, the daily life of the men who served, and the problems faced by commanders of the time, in battles that include the Glorious First of June, the Battle of the Nile, and, of course, Trafalgar. “An excellent book ... clearly and simply written ... action-packed with many of the great sea battles.”—Nautical Magazine ... Read more

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Excellent Brief History
This book is short sharp and to the point and yet has a suprising amount of detail. For someone wanting an introduction to this subject this is definatly the book to have as it is easy to read and understand and covers the most exciting period in the age of the sailing navy. A good background book for Jack Aubry, Hornblower and Richard Bolitho readers. ... Read more

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Chapters: Leonard Bernstein, Raymond Smullyan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Tudor, Vladimir Horowitz, Stephen Kovacevich, Ferde Grofé, Claudio Arrau, David Burge, Bradley Joseph, Per Enflo, Percy Grainger, Leo Ornstein, Paul Jacobs, George Szell, Arthur Rubinstein, Henry Doktorski, Wolfgang Rübsam, André Previn, James Levine, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Kastle, Oscar Levant, Michael Tilson Thomas, Murray Perahia, Charlie Albright, Norman Dello Joio, Ervin Nyíregyházi, Joseph Alfidi, Paul Doguereau, Terry Burrus, Leon Fleisher, Richard Fuller, Martin Berkofsky, Morton Gould, Eugene List, Leopold Godowsky, Capitola Dickerson, Rudolf Firkušný, Mordecai Shehori, Benjamin Johnson Lang, Sarah Cahill, John L. Crain, David Deveau, Van Cliburn, Walter Bricht, Don Shirley, Leonard Gillman, Ferrante & Teicher, Dmitri Novgorodsky, Blanche Robinson, Sean Kennard, Harrison Slater, Amy Beach, Hephzibah Menuhin, Theodore Lettvin, Leonard Hokanson, Roger Wright, Jon Nakamatsu, Stewart L. Gordon, Phillip Ramey, Yaltah Menuhin, Rose and Ottilie Sutro, Orion Weiss, Hugh Sung, Jay Gottlieb, Min Kwon, Lincoln Mayorga, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, William Kapell, Awadagin Pratt, David Oei, Simone Dinnerstein, André Watts, Ray Lev, Karl Haas, Denver Oldham, Frederic Rzewski, Rudolf Serkin, Robert Black, Charles Rosen, Joel Ryce-Menuhin, Abbey Simon, Shelley Midura, Beth Levin, Gabriela Lena Frank, Edward Auer, Christopher O'Riley, Gold and Fizdale, Margaret Bonds, Ozan Marsh, Eric Himy, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Mark Wessel, Earl Wild, Walter Murphy, Benjamin Kim, Natan Brand, James Tocco, Egon Petri, Art Murphy, Marylene Dosse, Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Serkin, Byron Janis, Emanuel Ax, Abram Chasins, Louis Gruenberg, Eunice Norton, Jack Winerock, Richard and John Contiguglia, Mark Zeltser, Robert Goldsand, Raymond Lewenthal, Rosina Lhévinne, Angelin Chang, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Gary Graffman, Wladimir Jan Kochanski, Alexander Toradze, Andor Földes, Benno Rabinof and Sylvia Rabi... ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict.
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London : printed for A. Millar, 1759. 2v.(viii,739,[1]p.) ; 4° ... Read more

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Chapters: Frank Zappa, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Captain Beefheart, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, La Monte Young, Iannis Xenakis, Mike Patton, Demetrio Stratos, Joseph Nechvatal, Merzbow, Roberto Paci Dalò, Jerry Calliste, Jr., Edgard Varèse, Louis and Bebe Barron, Petri Kuljuntausta, Anthony Braxton, Juan María Solare, Cornelius Cardew, Rhys Chatham, Joseph Byrd, Max Neuhaus, Pauline Oliveros, Marc Sabat, Alvin Lucier, Andi Spicer, Henry Flynt, Hauke Harder, Simon Wickham-Smith, Gavin Bryars, Christian Marclay, Graham Bowers, Howard Stelzer, Jonathan Segel, Georg Klein, Joe Jones, Marco Oppedisano, Mira Calix, Dimitri Voudouris, Christian Wolff, Michalis Travlos, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Ernesto Rodrigues, Chris Newman, Ryoji Ikeda, Donald Knaack, Hermann Nitsch, Luigi Russolo, Max Richter, John Chowning, Ellsworth Snyder, Philip Krumm, Christian Zanesi, Sollers Osaka, David Strother, Andrew Deutsch, Tyondai Braxton, Daniel James Wolf, Gareth Williams, Thanasis Kaproulias, Jacob Isaacson, Michael Pisaro, Tod Dockstader, Nicolas Collins, Catherine Christer Hennix, Barney Childs, Eric Ross, Richard Maxfield, Dave Smith, Ron Kuivila, Andrew Culver, Gordon Mumma, Marc Broude, Palle Mikkelborg, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Antonio Russolo, Lawrence Chandler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 492. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frank Vincent Zappa (pronounced ; December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Inve...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10672 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict.
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London : printed for A. Millar, 1759. 2v.(viii,739,[1]p.) ; 4° ... Read more

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Focusing on the Tudors, this is one of a Key Stage 2 series which offers a variety of original source material that encourages pupils to use skills such as imagination, informed guesswork and deduction to reconstruct historical episodes from the available evidence. ... Read more

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This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other. ... Read more

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The Scottish Empire charts the imperial involvements of Scots from early times to the end of the twentieth century. This external history of the nation reflects its internal history, not least in a tendency towards opposite extremes. It is a tale of dramatic incidents and craggy characters, of the Scots' concern with education, evangelism and philanthropy but also with their spying, swindles and drug-running. It tells of Scottish regiments on the rampage and in humiliation, of savages eating missionaries and of colonists committing atrocities. It runs from heroic Christian pioneers such as David Livingstone and Mary Slessor to hot-blooded compatriots who had other encounters with alien cultures: William Gladstone (an English statesman but also a Liverpudlian Scot) who hit a Greek bishop on the chin, the Earl of Elgin who burned the Summer Palace in Peking, and many more. Throughout his book Michael Fry takes care to connect the colourful external history with the more humdrum realities of the internal history, but especially with the continuing development of the Scottish intellect which has done so much to keep the idea of the nation alive.What emerges is a history also of Scotland's precarious place in the world, from hard-fought independence to uncertain Union, from deceptive imperialism to self-government now seeking its definitive form. No other small nation can boast such wealth of experience to face the uncertainties of the future. ... Read more

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Excellent introduction to the psychological side of monarchy
From Henry VII to Elizabeth, the court during the Tudor era was both the political and cultural focus of the English state, where the monarch attracted talent and dispensed patronage. They dealt heavily in image-building, especially Henry VIII and Elizabeth, for the ruler was not merely a personal executive but the center of a rich symbolism expressing all the aspects of authority. The monarch had not only to be (or have been) a chivalrous war leader, but must also show magnanimity and generosity to his subordinates in the peerage and to his people in general -- and he must do it publicly. The king was also responsible to God for his subjects' well-being, which was why it was so important to Henry VIII to produce a son; not to do so was regarded as a sign of divine disapproval. Royal pageantry was also a tool of statecraft, as shown by Edward IV's competition with the glittering court of Burgundy and the attention paid by Henry VIII to the elegance of Francis I. The author deals at length with the sources on which English courts modeled themselves, their often amorphous administrative structure and day-to-day workings, the nature of access to and security within the court (a nobleman had to be sure of his welcome there, which was often the acid test of his personal political status), the political role of royal sports and entertainment, and the nature of factional political maneuvering. Even the architectural layout of the king's place of residence provided context to the court, and the book includes an annotated list of the king's houses, when and by whom they were built, to what use the monarch put them, and their eventual fate. Mining the private and public writings of the peerage for examples, Loades has produced a very readable account of a subtle side of kingship of which most modern students are not even aware -- even though much of what he has to say might also apply to the White House. ... Read more