Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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 Short History of England
Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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 People's History of England
Author: Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789350022559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789350022559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Traveller's History of England
Author: Christopher Daniell
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Foundation
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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.
A History of England
Author: Charles Oman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Shortened History of England
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Leopold von Ranke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Short History of England
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Industrial History of England
Author: Henry de Beltgens Gibbins
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Industrial History of England" by Henry de Beltgens Gibbins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Industrial History of England" by Henry de Beltgens Gibbins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
History of Civilization in England
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description