Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page xiii
... social history has added a new dimension to the study of the past . And in the last half - century a number of highly readable works of scholarship have appeared in which , by employing a technique first used by Macaulay in the famous ...
... social history has added a new dimension to the study of the past . And in the last half - century a number of highly readable works of scholarship have appeared in which , by employing a technique first used by Macaulay in the famous ...
Page xiv
... social history of the later seventeenth century and , in my ' forties , three late eighteenth- and early nine- teenth - century political and social histories of our wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France , and another on ...
... social history of the later seventeenth century and , in my ' forties , three late eighteenth- and early nine- teenth - century political and social histories of our wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France , and another on ...
Page xviii
... social and political organisation impossible in societies torn by perpetual strife , fear and mutual destruction . Everything educative and enduring in medieval Britain was the legacy of the Christian Church and its creed of creative ...
... social and political organisation impossible in societies torn by perpetual strife , fear and mutual destruction . Everything educative and enduring in medieval Britain was the legacy of the Christian Church and its creed of creative ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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