Political History of Tudor and Stuart England

<p><em>A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England</em> 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.<br>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. <em>A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England</em> provides a crucial opportunity for students to examine the institutions and events that moulded English history in the early modern era at first-hand.</p>