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Tudor Empire

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

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Authors:
  1. Jessica S. Hower

    1. History Department, Southwestern University History Department, Georgetown, USA

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  • Breaks new ground by confronting the chronological and geographical constraints of traditional Tudor Studies and Imperial History
  • Traces the entangled histories of national consolidation, identity formation, monarchical rule, and territorial expansion from the Bosworth battlefield to Sir Walter Ralegh’s Guiana, illuminating larger stories
  • Tells a series of fascinating smaller stories along the way, including Henry VII’s manipulation of Arthurian legend, the power and promise of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, and the Elizabethan plot to settle Britain’s first protestant pilgrims in North America

Part of the book series: Britain and the World (BAW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: “This Realme of Englond is an Impire”

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 1-31

  3. “The direction which they look, and the distance they sailed”: The Birth of an Imperial Dynasty, 1485–1509

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 33-86

  4. “Ungracious Dogholes”: Experiments in Empire, Ca. 1513–1527

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 87-147

  5. “More Fully Playnly and Clerely Set Fourth to All the World”: England, Scotland, and “Thempire of Greate Briteigne” in the 1530s and 1540s

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 149-208

  6. “Recouer thyne aunciente bewtie”: Mid-Tudor Empire over Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1550–1570

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 209-268

  7. “The very path trodden by our ancestors”: The Elizabethan Moment, 1570–1588

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 269-331

  8. “Travelers or tinkers, conquerers or crounes”: Tudor Empire in the Last Decade, 1588–1603

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 333-394

  9. Conclusion: “Such an honourable seruice”

    • Jessica S. Hower
    Pages 395-403

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 405-411
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About this book

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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“Tudor Empire has many virtues: combining the domestic and broader history of the Tudors, treating the entire dynasty’s history both in depth and in dialogue across to the decades, and linking the sixteenth century engagements to the later history of empire. In that last regard, this book offers an excellent first chapter to the history of the English Atlantic and to the later (and more familiar) iteration of the British Empire.”
Carla Pestana, Department Chair and Professor, UCLA, California, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • History Department, Southwestern University History Department, Georgetown, USA

    Jessica S. Hower

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tudor Empire

  • Book Subtitle: The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485-1603

  • Authors: Jessica S. Hower

  • Series Title: Britain and the World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62892-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62891-8Published: 18 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62894-9Published: 19 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62892-5Published: 17 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2947-7182

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-7190

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 411

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism

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