The episode will present the war of the roses, Henry VIII and the Anglican Church, the reformation, Elisabeth I, puritans, the Spanish Armada, enclosure, wool industry, primogeniture, sturdy beggars, mercantilism and overpopulation.

Picture: Seaport at sunset, a painting from 1639 by Claude Lorrain, showing the spirit of Mercantilism. Wikipedia

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Literature on the American Colonial Era:

-         American colonies: the settling of North America, Alan Taylor

-         Colonial America, Richard Middleton

-         The British in the Americas 1480-1815, Anthony McFarlane

-         The Americans: Colonial experience, Daniel Boorstin

-         The Barbarous years, Bernard Bailyn

-         The American Colonies, R.C. Simmons

-         Colonial America 1607-1763, Harry Ward

-         The Forty years that created America, Edward Lamont

-         Wilderness at dawn, Ted Morgan

-         A History of Colonial America, Max Savelle

-         The Brave new world, Peter Charles Hoffer

-         Founding of the American colonies 1583-1660, John Pomfret

-         The colonies in transition 1660-1713, Wesley Frank Craven

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