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A Short History of England (Classic Reprint)
A Short History of England - Classic Reprint Author:G. K. Chesterton I-Introduction IT will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public. The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member of th... more »e public has not been written. What we call the popular histories should rather be called the anti-popular histories. They are all, nearly without exception, written against the people; and in them the populace is either ignored or elaborately proved to have been wrong. It is true that Green called his book "A Short History of the English People"; but he seems to have thought it too short for the people to be properly mentioned. For instance, he calls one very large part of his story "Puritan England." But England never was Puritan. It would have been almost as unfair to call the rise of Henry of Navarre "Puritan France." And some of our
Table of Contents
CONTENTS ; I INTRODUCTION PAGE 9; II THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN 14; III THE AGE 01" LEGENDS 28; IV THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS 40; V ST EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS 54; VI THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES 7i; VII THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS 86; VIII THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND 103; IX NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS * 124; X THE WAR OF THE USURPERS 141; XI THE REBELLION OF THE RICH 157; XII SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS 178; XIII THE AGE OF THE PURITANS 192; XIV THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS 211; XV THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS 229; XVI ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS 245; XVII THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN 262; XVIII 280
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