The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution

Walter L. Arnstein, Philip Corrigan, Derek Sayer, G. E. Aylmer

The American Historical Review · 1987 · 739 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

A remarkably centralized country - state formation in Medieval England This realm of England is an Empire - revolution of 1530s an elect nation - Elizabethan consolidation mortall God enthroned - one bourgeois revolution (of many) from theatre to machine - old curruption the working class question - Society and society There is, above all, an agency.