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Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power - The Making of the British State (Hardcover)
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Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power - The Making of the British State (Hardcover)
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This controversial book offers a novel perspective on Tudor
government and British state formation. It argues that traditional
studies focusing on lowland England as 'the normal context of
government' exaggerate the regime's successes by marginalizing the
borderlands. Frontiers were normal in early-modern Europe, however,
and central to the problem of state formation. Steve Ellis argues
that England's peripheries were more extensive than the core and
provide the real yardstick by which the effectiveness of government
can be measured. He demonstrates their importance by means of a
detailed comparative study of two marches - Cumbria and Ireland -
and their ruling magnates. He exposes the flaws in early Tudor
policy - characterized by long periods of neglect, interspersed
with sporadic attempts to adapt, at minimal cost, a centralized
administrative system geared to lowland England for the government
of outlying regions which had very different social structures.
Ellis analyses the 1534 crisis in crown - magnate relations,
reassesses the resulting policy of centralization and uniformity,
and identifies the central role of these developments in
establishing a British pattern of state formation.
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