The Political History of Tudor and Stuart England: A Sourcebook

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 180 Seiten

A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England draws together a fascinating selection of sources to illuminate this turbulent era of English history. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the creation of a worldwide imperial state under Queen Anne, these sources illustrate England's difficult transition from the medieval to the modern.
Covering a period characterised by conflict and division, this wide-ranging single-volume collection presents the accounts of Yorkists and Lancastrians, Protestants and Catholics, and Roundheads and Cavaliers side by side. A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England provides a crucial opportunity for students to examine the institutions and events that moulded English history in the early modern era at first-hand.

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Introduction
1
2
27
Local Authority
53
Parliament 62
62
The British Context 80
80
The Early Tudors
91
The Later Tudors
118
The Early Stuarts and Civil War
130
Restoration to Revolution
149
Sources
172
27
173
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