TY - BOOK ID - 17534134 TI - State formation in early modern England, c. 1550-1700 PY - 2000 SN - 0521789559 0521783461 9780521783460 9780521789554 0511017235 9780511017230 0511152329 9780511152320 0511046448 9780511046445 051111883X 9780511118838 1107120993 9781107120990 1280159219 9781280159213 0511327447 9780511327445 0511612524 9780511612527 0511103948 PB - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - -Politics and government KW - -Great Britain KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - --Politique et gouvernement KW - --1558-1714 KW - --Great Britain KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Great Britain - Politics and government - 1603-1714 KW - Great Britain - Politics and government - 1558-1603 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17534134 AB - This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism. ER -