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A Short History of England
R. J. A. White
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1967-08
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN
0521094399
9780521094399
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jC9GAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is an agreeable narrative, easy to read, of the history of the English nation through twenty centuries. It is intended for the reader who wants a comprehensive survey that brings out the important lines of development but does not clog the story with too many facts, dates, treaties and battles. Underlying the account is a professional scholar's acquaintance with historical scholarship, conveyed as a stimulating succession of ideas. The reader gets a strong sense of the evolution of English society: the mixture of law, custom and innovation in its constitutional history; its curious blend of characteristics. There are numerous lively - and sometimes surprising - quotations from the sources. Its compass is the whole field of English history from the Roman occupation to the end of the nineteenth century; a brief postscript brings the story up to the present day.