Title:
A short history of England : the glorious story of a rowdy nation / Simon Jenkins.
ISBN:
9781610391429
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Public Affairs, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books Ltd." -- T.p. verso.
Contents:
Introduction -- Saxon dawn : 400-600 -- The birth of England : 600-800 -- The Danes : 800-1066 -- William the Conqueror : 1066-1087 -- The Conqueror's children : 1087-1154 -- Henry and Becket : 1154-1189 -- Magna Carta : 1189-1216 -- Henry III and Simon de Montfort : 1216-1272 -- Hammering the Celts : 1272-1330 -- The Hundred Years War : 1330-1377 -- The Peasants' Revolt to the loss of France : 1377-1453 -- The Wars of the Roses : 1453-1483 -- Bosworth and Henry Tudor : 1483-1509 -- Henry VIII : 1509-1547 -- Reformation, Counter-Reformation : 1547-1558 -- Good Queen Bess : 1558-1603 -- Early Stuarts : 1603-1642 -- Civil War : 1642-1660 -- Restoration : 1660-1688 -- Glorious Revolution : 1688-1714 -- Walpole and Pitt the Elder " 1714-1774 -- From Boston to Waterloo : 1774-1815 -- The road to reform : 1815-1832 -- Victorian dawn : 1832-1868 -- Gladstone and Disraeli : 1868-1901 -- The Edwardians : 1901-1914 -- The First World War : 1914-1918 -- The locust years : 1918-1939 -- The Second World War : 1939-1945 -- The welfare state : 1945-1979 -- Thatcherism : 1979-1990 -- Thatcher's children : 1990-2011 -- Epilogue -- One hundred key dates -- Kings and queens of England from 1066 -- Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom -- Author's Note.
Summary:
Presents an overview of the history of England from the Saxons to today and provides lists of kings and queens with the date of they ruled, prime ministers, and one hundred key dates in the nation's history.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn761693781
Availability:
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