The Sixteenth Century 1485-1603.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Patrick Collinson, ed. The Sixteenth Century 1485-1603. (The Short Oxford History of the British Isles.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 306. $16.95 paper. ISBN 0-19-820766-2.

Patrick Collinson has edited this volume on The Sixteenth Century for the Short Oxford History of the British Isles. It is intended for sixth-form and university syllabuses, as a replacement for earlier choices generically produced under the rubric "Tudor and Stuart England." This is another in an almost constant stream of history books written by committee that have almost ...

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