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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- King of England (1485–1509) and founder of the Tudor line. Head of the house of Lancaster, he defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field (1485) and was proclaimed king. In 1486 Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, thereby uniting the houses of York and Lancaster.
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- noun first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509)
- noun King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313)
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Cuil has some odd choices of tags - for example, John Cabot is under 1497 labelled Henry VII of England - but, on the whole the information popups pickup the main dates and events.
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Cuil has some odd choices of tags - for example, John Cabot is under 1497 labelled Henry VII of England - but, on the whole the information popups pickup the main dates and events.
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Bacon is really interesting- there is much more than just that quote- at some point I'm planning to do a series on his history of Henry VII which is a fascinating document and well worth reading.
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Bacon is really interesting- there is much more than just that quote- at some point I'm planning to do a series on his history of Henry VII which is a fascinating document and well worth reading.
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English industrialization must actually be traced 300 years prior to Adam Smith, to events like Henry VII's imposition of a tariff on woolen goods in 1489.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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Henry VII's advisors got their economic ideas ultimately from the city-states of Renaissance Italy, where economics had been born as a component of Civic Humanism, their now-forgotten governing ideology.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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Henry VII created, in fact, the first national industrial policy of the modern era, long before the Industrial Revolution introduced artificial energy sources like steam power.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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Henry VII created, in fact, the first national industrial policy of the modern era, long before the Industrial Revolution introduced artificial energy sources like steam power.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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Henry VII's advisors got their economic ideas ultimately from the city-states of Renaissance Italy, where economics had been born as a component of Civic Humanism, their now-forgotten governing ideology.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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English industrialization must actually be traced 300 years prior to Adam Smith, to events like Henry VII's imposition of a tariff on woolen goods in 1489.
Ian Fletcher: In Praise of Mercantilism, or Why Economic History Isn't Boring Ian Fletcher 2011
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