A New History of England and Great Britain
Author : John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Author : James Hawes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1615198156
Book Description
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
A Short History of England
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1610391438
Book Description
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 London Times 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.
A Key Containing the Statements and Solutions of Questions in Prof. Charles Davies' New Elementary Algebra
Author : Charles Davies
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Algebra
ISBN :
Book Description
The New History and the Old
Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674013841
Book Description
For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.
A Collection of Problems and Theorems, with Hints, Results, and Occasional Solutions, Forming Examples in the Methods of Modern Geometry
Author : Robert Henry Wright
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Coordinates, Trilinear
ISBN :
Book Description
A History of England
Author : Charles Oman
Publisher :
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 125003759X
Book Description
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I. Rich in detail and atmosphere, Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is the story of Henry VIII's relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under "Bloody Mary." It tells, too, of the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots against the queen and even an invasion force, finally brought stability. Above all, however, it is the story of the English Reformation and the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, England was still largely feudal and looked to Rome for direction; at its end, it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state, not the church, and where men and women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them.
England and the Aeroplane
Author : David Edgerton
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
"This essay argues that 20th century England should be seen as a technological, industrial and militant nation. It is a refutation of many of the arguments of "declinists" like Martin Wiener, Correlli Barnett and Perry Anderson. Contrary to myth, English aviation and the aircraft industry were strong, due to the vital place that technology had in English "liberal militarism", as well as English enthusiasm for, rather than fear of, the aeroplane. This enthusiasm was predominantly right-wing and sometimes pro-Nazi. The book also shows how many firms opposed central elements of 1930s rearmament policy, and that a famous aircraft firm was nationalized during World War II, and how the 1945-51 Labour government "privatized" aircraft plants and jet engine design. In the 1950s the aeroplane remained central to the "warfare state" but also became the symbol of a new manufacturing England, a situation which Harold Wilson's "White Heat" sought to change. " -- Blackwells.
The English and Their History
Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101873361
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
