"In three concise volumes, ... presents the history of the people of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. Through the frameworks of cultural, intellectual, and social history, the authors examine the conflicts, contrasts, and commonalities among four different peoples and their cultures ... "--P. [4] of cover.
The three volumes of A History of the Peoples of the British Isles weave together the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and their peoples.
The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present.
Presenting material on themes such as women's history, the family, religion, intellectual history, society, politics and the arts, these volumes provide a resource for students of the political and cultural heritage of the British Isles.
Thanks go to the scholars who have read and commented on all or parts of the book: Stewart J. Brown, James Cronin, Stanford Lehmberg and Standish Meacham. Thanks also go to the reviewers: Nancy Fix Anderson, Loyola University, ...
The key figures in the tradition were Isaac Newton and John Locke . Newton ( 1642– 1727 ) was the towering figure in the Scientific Revolution of the late seventeenth century . Building on the earlier work of Galileo , Copernicus , and ...
For people-watchers everywhere, this is the definitive guide to one of the strangest peoples in existence: the British.
"In three concise volumes ... presents the history of the people of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present.
"In three concise volumes ... presents the history of the people of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present.
Thanks go to the scholars who have read and commented on all or parts of the book : Stewart J. Brown , James Cronin , Stanford Lehmberg and Standish Meacham . Thanks also go to the reviewers : Nancy Fix Anderson , Loyola University ...
This said, there is little doubt that Rees Davies' book The First English Empire (2000) constitutes a landmark in the historiography of these islands. Davies, a Welsh-speaking scholar who possesses first-hand knowledge of Welsh history, ...