Warwick the Kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame During the War of the Roses

by A.J. Pollard

Warwick the Kingmaker was a fifteenth-century celebrity; a military hero, self-publicist and populist. For twelve years he was the arbiter of English politics, not hesitating to set up and put down kings. In the dominant strand of recent English historical writing, Warwick is condemned as a man who hindered the development of the modern state; in earlier centuries he was admired as an exemplar of true nobility who defied the centralising tendencies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184725182X
• ISBN13: 9781847251824
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.5"