Lang, Seán

Lang, Seán

A Reference for the Rest of Us!

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

British History For Dummies offers a fun, easy-to-follow account of the people, institutions, disasters, and triumphs that are uniquely part of the history and lore that is the British empire. Here, at last, is an irreverent but highly informative look at the glory that is-and was-Great Britain. Covering the entire sweep of British history from antiquity to the present, the book discusses ancient Britons, the Norman Conquest, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Tudors and Stuarts and the first world war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9780470035368
• ISBN-10: 0470035366
• Artikelnr.: 20938716

Autorenporträt

Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and is co-editor of Modern History Review. He is an active member and Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
Introduction.
Part I: The British Are Coming!
Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time.
Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff.
Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain.
Part II: Everyone Else Is Coming! The Invaders.
Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia.
Chapter 5: Saxon Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll.
Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings.
Chapter 7: 1066 and All That Followed.
Part III: Who's in Charge Around Here? The Middle Ages.
Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire.
Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time - the Medieval Realms of Britain.
Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing - and Then You Die.
Part IV: Rights or Royals? The Tudors and Stuarts.
Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown.
Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation.
Chapter 13: Crown or Commons?
Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas.
Part V: On the Up: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
Chapter 15: Let's Make a Country.
Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution.
Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions.
Chapter 18: Putting on My Top Hat - The Victorians.
Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets - But It Don't Shine Either.
Part VI: Don't Look Down: The Twentieth Century.
Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence - and Everything Else?
Chapter 21: Radio Times.
Chapter 22: TV Times.
Part VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Top Turning Points.
Chapter 24: Ten Major Documents.
Chapter 25: Ten Things the British Have Given the World (Whether the World Wanted Them or Not).
Chapter 26: Ten Great British Places to Visit.
Chapter 27: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known.
Index.