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| The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Guy
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 108655
Media: Paperback
Pages: 120
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0192854011
Dewey Decimal Number: 941
EAN: 9780192854018
ASIN: 0192854011
Publication Date: August 10, 2000
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All that glisters March 24, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am working my way through the 8 entries in the Very Short Introduction series that were originally part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, and I have not been disappointed yet. This very worthy entry in the series, covering the reigns of the Tudor monarchs, has been 'substantially revised and updated', as of 2000.
Professor Guy introduces the chief protagonists and covers the main events of the period, as you would expect, but also challenges some widely-held views, some cherished myths.
History has been especially charitable to Elizabeth I and harshly critical of Mary, and a little reassessment never goes amiss. The Elizabethan age is routinely referred to as a Golden Age. Guy points out that, for working people, an age of rapid population growth and falling real wages may not have seemed quite so golden. He also suggests that Elizabeth's failure to curb government corruption and to maintain tax revenues contributed to the conditions that would ultimately lead to the Civil War of the following century. Mary, on the other hand, being in many ways a victim of ill luck, may not have been as villainous as popular myth often suggests.
Needless to say, a very short introduction can only whet your appetite, not satisfy it. This is both a good place to start and a useful source of fresh insights for readers that already have some knowledge of the period.
Next stop, the Stuarts.
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