"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 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 thesixteenth 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.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
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
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: This Realme of Englond is an Impire2 The direction which they look, and the distance they sailed: The Birth of an Imperial Dynasty, 148515093 Ungracious Dogholes: Experiments in Empire, Ca. 151315274 More Fully Playnly and Clerely Set Fourth to All the World: England, Scotland, and Thempire of Greate Briteigne in the 1530s and 1540s5 Recouer thyne aunciente bewtie: Mid-Tudor Empire over Mid-Tudor Crisis, 155015706 The very path trodden by our ancestors: The Elizabethan Moment, 157015887 Travelers or tinkers, conquerers or crounes: Tudor Empire in the Last Decade, 158816038 Conclusion: Such an honourable seruice