Neville Williams Libros

Traces milestones in history from Martin Luther's ninety-five theses printed in 1517 to the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 which consolidated Japanese power.

Elizabeth I was England's first really successful female monarch. She defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, promoted religious tolerance, and united England and Scotland at her death in 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, and was known as the Virgin Queen and Gloriana. Her reign was known as a Golden Age. She used her sex as a strength not a weakness, and claimed she was married to England.

7 1/4"x9 7/8" 272 page softcover English history book. Publisher-Cardinal in 1974

Traces milestones in history from the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 which rekindled the Hundred Years War to the age of enlightenment ushered in by Erasmus in 1516.

Starting with Christopher Columbus's momentous journey across the Atlantic to the Americas in 1492, this chronology covers the period in world history in which Europeans established their first permanent colonies around the world. It concludes with the Continental Congress extending the so-called Olive Branch Petition to King George III of Great Britain in a final attempt to avert the American Revolution. During this period Europe saw the Protestant Reformation and numerous wars, especially the destructive 30 Years' War of 1618-48, while the Islamic world extended its borders and China made outstanding technological and economic advances.

Photographs and drawings show English castles and palaces, accompanied by brief histories of each edifice, including Windsor, Balmoral, and Buckingham Palace.