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From a "Strong Town of War" to the "Very Heart of the Country": The English Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1558-1625.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From a "Strong Town of War" to the "Very Heart of the Country": The English Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1558-1625./
Author:	van Vliet, Janine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	344 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-07A(E).
Subject:	European history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10682618
ISBN:	9780355620092

From a "Strong Town of War" to the "Very Heart of the Country": The English Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1558-1625.
van Vliet, Janine.

From a "Strong Town of War" to the "Very Heart of the Country": The English Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1558-1625. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 344 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

The English border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed provides the perfect case study to analyze early modern state building in the frontiers. Berwick experienced two seismic shifts of identity, instituted by two successive monarchs: Elizabeth I (1558--1603) and James I (1603--1625). Both sought to expand state power in the borders, albeit in different ways. Elizabeth needed to secure her borders, and so built up Berwick's military might with expensive new fortifications and an enlarged garrison of soldiers, headed by a governor who administered the civilian population as well. This arrangement resulted in continual clashes with Berwick's traditional governing guild. Then, in 1603, Berwick's world was turned upside-down when James VI, king of Scotland, ascended the English throne. The turbulent borders were rechristened the "Middle Shires" of his united realm. Berwick was stripped of its border garrison, and relevance, by 1604; now, it was merely a regional market center. Its townspeople regained their pre-Elizabethan autonomy, but they faced the challenge of redefining their urban identity, so tied as it had been to the town's militarized status. While Berwick's leaders developed creative solutions to cope with the loss of employment and crown funds resulting from the garrison's dissolution, ultimately the town declined without the border line to give it international significance.

ISBN: 9780355620092Subjects--Topical Terms:

1972904
European history.

From a "Strong Town of War" to the "Very Heart of the Country": The English Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1558-1625.
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