G.R.Elton (1921-1994) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Renowned as one of the leading historians of his era and the author of many influential books on the Tudor period, he was also a defender of a traditional, factual-based view of history. He was famous for his role in the influential 'Carr-Elton Debate' in the 1960s, where he argued for a scientific approach to history against the historian E.H.Carr's more relativistic view.

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition - Diarmaid MacCulloch

Preface to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

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1. The Tudor Problem
2. Henry VII: Securing the Dynasty
3. Henry VII: Restoration of Government
4. The Great Cardinal
5. The King's Great Matter
6. Thomas Cromwell and the Break with Rome
7. The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth
8. The Crisis of the Tudors, 1540-58
9. England During the Price Revolution
10. The Elizabethan Settlement
11. The Growing Conflict, 1568-85
12. Seapower
13. War, 1585-1603
14. The Structure of the Age: Conservatism
15. The Structure of the Age: Renaissance
16. The Last Years
17. Revisions (1990)

Bibliography

Index