Product Description

In the two centuries that this volume covers - between 1485 and 1688 - many of the landmark events described are factors that cemented the character of the nation, and the world, which we know today. England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII; his daughter Elizabeth became the celebrated Virgin Queen; and the discovery of 'the round world' enabled a vast and magnificent continent across the Atlantic to be sought and found. While this new era of global expansion spawned the beginnings of modern America, England was engaged in a bloody Civil War and 'the country sustained a Republican experiment under the massive personality of Oliver Cromwell'. The volume concludes in the reign of William of Orange, the Protestant faith having been secured under a Dutch monarch. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION The Round World; The Tudor Dynasty; King Henry VIII; Cardinal Wolsey; The Break with Rome; The End of the Monasteries; The Protestant Struggle; Good Queen Bess; The Spanish Armada; Gloriana THE CIVIL WAR The United Crowns; The 'Mayflower'; Charles I and Buckingham; The Personal Rule; The Revolt of Parliament; The Great Rebellion; Marston Moor and Naseby; The Axe Falls THE RESTORATION The English Republic; The Lord Protestor; The Restoration; The Merry Monarch; The Popish Plot; Whig and Tory; The Catholic King; The Revolution of 1688

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #367801 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Sir Winston Churchill (1865-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War II. Throughout his long and distinguished political career his writing was prolific.

Customer Reviews

Politic history of England since 1485 to 1688
First of all, I think that this book should not be titled "The New World", because America only appears in a handful of pages. A most accurate title would be "Politic history of England since 1485 to 1688", following the personal point of view of Sir Winston Churchill.

It is an interesting book, which can be read as a novel, though some of the opinions of the author are very arguable, specially from the point of view of Spain or France. The fact that Isaac Newton, perhaps the most important englishman in World History, is not mentioned even a single time in the whole book, is also quite surprising.