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 England 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.
language: English
title: The New World
titlecomplete: The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples #2)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, History, American History, European History, World History, School, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1419
series: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
publisher: Cassell Reference