| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780312321390 | | Publisher: St. Martin's Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 33955078 | | Item#: BKQS99 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1T | | Pages: 384 |
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| | | The year 1603 marks a time of great change in the fabric of English life. Politically, it was the year that Queen Elizabeth I died and the monarchy passed from the hands of the Tudors to the Stuarts, from the house of Henry VIII to that of James VI of Scotland, who ruled England as James I. As Shakespeare put the finishing touches on Othello, the Black Death spread across England, killing nearly 40,000 and witchcraft and piracy ran rampant. Economically, unsurpassed wealth flowed into England, due in large part to the new trade routes to and from Asia that were established by the burgeoning East India Company. In this groundbreaking work, Christopher Lee documents the extraordinary occurrences of a single year that so dramatically affected the fate of a nation.
| PraisePublishers Weekly
"[I]n its rich texture and detail, 1603 will surely whet the appetite of readers interested in 17th-century English history." 02/23/2004 |
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