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Author | : Simon Jenkins |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610391438 |
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The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country’s birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and LondonTimes former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today’s England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250013674 |
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The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
Author | : Simon Schama |
Publisher | : London : BBC ; Toronto : M & S |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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The first volume in this history of Britain tells the story of Britain from the time of the earliest settlements discovered in the Orkneys to the death of Queen Elizabeth the first.
Author | : David Hume |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Daniell |
Publisher | : Interlink Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Traveller's History of England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This compact volume . . . delivers a solid, comprehensive and entertaining overview of Englands history . . . a delightful source.--Library Journal. A Travellers History of England deals with all the major periods of English history and gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of Englands past from prehistoric times to the present.
Author | : Clayton Roberts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 725 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315509598 |
Download A History of England, Volume 2 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A History of England, Volume 2 (1688 to the Present), focuses on the key events and themes of English history since 1688. Topics include Britain's emergence as a great power in the 18th century, the American War for Independence, the Industrial Revolution, and the economic crisis of the 1970s.
Author | : Elie Halévy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Simon Schama |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart Limited |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780771079221 |
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Simon Schama's dramatic, broad-ranging, and immensely readable epic history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this third and final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present. "The Fate of Empire tells the eventful and exhilarating story of Britain's rise and fall as an imperial power, from the political turmoil of the 1770s to the struggle of present day leaders to find a way to make a different national future. The volume also examines the Romantic generation, the role of women in Victorian England, industrialization, and the liberal empire from Ireland to India, which promised material improvement, but delivered coercion and famine. As in the previous volumes, Schama vividly portrays the lives of extraordinary personalities - Queen Victoria, Churchill, Dickens, and "ordinary" individuals including the author of the first British travel guide, and Elizabeth Anderson, the first woman doctor. Finally, Schama asks an essential question: what kind of Britain can hold together when its island isolation and its imperial dominion have both vanished? An examination of the legacy of the British ideal of freedom is at the heart of this entertaining and well-researched book. With "The Fate of Empire, Simon Schama has proven himself, again, as a masterful writer of narrative history.
Author | : Charles Oman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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