The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641
by Lawrence Stone
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This abridgement of Lawrence Stone's highly-regarded study omits many statistical details not needed by the non-specialized reader.Tags
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Be sure to get the unabridged edition. This book is full to the gunnels of fascinating gossip about the nobility of Elizabethan England, and to make the abridged version, they cut all that out.
According to my notes, useful but very dry.
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Stone teaches history at Princeton University. With his semi-Marxist perspective, he examines class relationships and ambitions as explanatory factors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 658 — Technology Management & public relations General management
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- DA356 .S82 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- Tudors, 1485-1603 Elizabeth I, 1558-1603. Elizabethan age
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