Age of Elizabeth

<p>This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today when work on early modern social history proliferates it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition substantially revised and expanded is clear in outline rich in detail stressing continuity as well as change balancing the glamour of privilege with the misery and privation of the poor and dealing with the dark side of Tudor life -- vagabondage starvation superstition and cruelty -- as well as its heroic achievements.</p>