Synopses & Reviews
A History of England, Volume I: Prehistory to 1714 incorporates recent scholarship into a master narrative that encompasses England's social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and political history. This account traces
how and
why critical events occurred. Other significant features:
- stresses dominant themes in English historythe coming of Christianity, the creation of the English monarchy, the impact of the Norman conquest and much more.
- discusses events in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as they affect developments in England.
- offers section headings, genealogical charts, a list of kings and queens, and improved maps.
- includes new material on the cultural effects of the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century.
- provides suggested Further Reading at the end of each chapter, focusing on the most important books on each era (updated to include recent publications).
Table of Contents
Volume I:
1. The Land and the People.
2. Roman Britain: 55 B.C.-450 A.D.19.
3. Anglo-Saxon England: 450-1066.
4. Norman England.
5. The Angevins.
6. The Thirteenth Century: 1216-1307.
7. War and Crisis: 1307-1399.
8. Lancaster and York: 1399-1485.
9. The Reign of Henry VII: 1485-1509.
10. War and Reformation: 1509-1547.
11. Protestant and Catholic: 1547-1558.
12. Elizabethan England: 1558-1603.
13. Early Stuart England: 1603-1640.
14. The English Revolution: 1640-1660.
15. Restoration and Revolution: 1660-1689.
16. War and Society.
Volume II:
16. War and Society
17. An Age of Stability: 1714-1760.
18. The Economic and Social Transformation of England: 1761-1815.
19. The Intellectual Transformation.
20. Politics in the Reign of George III.
21. Diplomacy and War in the Age of Revolution.
22. Conservatism, Liberalism, and Reform.
23. An Age of Prosperity.
24. Victorianism.
25. The British Empire.
26. An Age of Crisis: 1873-1914.
27. Britain and World War I.
28. Britain between the Wars.
29. Britain and World War II.
30. Socialist Britain: 1945-1990.
31. Life in Socialist Britain.