Philip Edwards.

Philip Edwards. The Making of he new English State, 1460-1660 (British Studies Series.) fresh York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. vii, 439 $1995 paper. ISBN 0-312-23614-X

Scholars and [i]connoisseur[/i]s are not the primary audience for Philip Edwards' recently made known book--but his work is no les useful because of that. Indeed, an account of what the work is not may illuminate better what it is, and what its use might be. First, despite its title, the work is not a investigation of early modem English state formation. Instead, it is an overview of English high political history from the civil wars of the

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