R.J. White - A Short History of England
| Conditie | redelijk [achterzijde kaft deels verschoten; hoekjes kaft stootplekjes; binding en inhoud boek goed] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 294 |
| Uitgavejaar | 1978 |
| Uitgegeven door | Cambridge University Press |
| Kaft | paperback |
| ISBN | 0521094399 |
| Code [intern] | RIA2020 |
Beschrijving boek
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. 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. Mr White is a historian whose gift for recreating the past in an interesting and readable way is well known, and this book will be read for pleasure and profit by all kinds of reader.
