Sources and Debates in English History, 1485 - 1714 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405162767 ISBN 13: 9781405162760

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-Stuart documents and illustrations, as well as extensive bibliographies and research and discussion guides.

• New edition contains 50 new documents, more explanatory text, illustrations, biographical background, and study questions
  
• Wide range of documents, from both manuscript and print sources, and from transcripts of private and public life
  
• Editorial material introduces students to the critical context; chapter bibliographies and questions allow ready integration into classroom, and research and source analysis assignments.
  
• Bibliography of Historians’ Debates with the latest articles and essays
  
• Accompanies the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714

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About this title

Book Description:

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: A Narrative History, this text brings together an impressive array of documents from the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. The documents are drawn from widely differing media and range from parliamentary statutes and political pamphlets to household bills and personal diary entries. They illuminate a variety of important topics of the era, including political and religious revolutions, social and economic transformations, and intellectual ferment. The material is introduced and set in context, and questions for debate and suggestions for further reading are included within each chapter. There is also a guide to primary material on the Internet.

From the Back Cover:

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England, 1485-1714: a Narrative History, this updated and substantially revised sourcebook guides students through an impressive array of documents from the Tudor-Stuart period.

The new edition is enhanced with 50 new documents, and new explanatory headnotes, biographical background, and study questions. Each chapter includes a Historians’ Debates bibliography with the latest articles and essays as well as a section listing additional source collections, both of which help students engage in further reading and directed research. The sources selected illuminate important topics of the era, including political and religious revolutions, social and economic transformations, and intellectual ferment. New documents include foreign visitors' impressions of England, documents from Elizabethan London, confessions of a murderess and of a witch, an attack on and a defence of sectarian society from the 1640s, and an early feminist discussion of marriage, as well as new sources on Ireland and Scotland before the Civil Wars and after the Glorious Revolution. There is also an expanded and revised bibliography of online document archives, and plates with explanatory captions with study questions for each chapter.

Sources and Debates in English History: 1485-1714 presents a range of carefully selectedmaterials from different media and sets them in context for students, who need no prior knowledge of English history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405162767
• ISBN 13: 9781405162760
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Key Newton, Bucholz Robert