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245 14 $aThe story of Britain :$ba people's history /$cRoy Strong.
260 $aLondon :$bPimlico,$c1998, ©1996.
300 $axi, 607 pages :$billustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ;$c26 cm.
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500 $aOriginally published: London: Hutchinson, 1996.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn this book the author tells the story of Britain as continuous narrative, in chapters which give life, meaning and point to every period he covers, from Celtic times to the era of Margaret Thatcher.
505 0 $aThe island -- Britannia -- Roman Britain -- Darkness and dawn -- Alfred and the Vikings -- The kingdom of England -- 1066 -- The conquest: loss and gain -- The Norman kings -- The first plantagenet -- The end of the empire -- The gothic age -- Towards a United Island -- An imcompetent king -- The hundred years war -- The black death -- The great revolt -- The fate of Richard II -- The father of english poetry -- The victor of Agincourt -- The wars of the roses -- Return to the order: Edward IV -- Violent interlude: Richard III -- William Caxton, printer -- Return to order: the Tudors -- Reformation and revolution -- A man for all seasons -- The turbulent decade -- A new identity -- Armada -- Gloriana's England -- Immortal Shakespeare -- An untrustworthy dynasty -- The king's Arcadia
505 0 $aThree kingdoms in crisis -- The British Vitruvius -- War -- The world upside down -- A failed republic -- A failed protectorate -- The search for stability -- The unexpected revolution -- The birth of a great power -- Instability and change -- From magic to science: Isaac Newton -- The rule of the elite -- The richest country -- The pursuit of happiness -- Reason and enthusiasm -- Paradise regained: 'capability' Brown -- Disintegration and defeat -- World War and the invention of Britain -- The new man: William Wilberforce -- Revolution averted: The great reform bill -- Country into town: The Industrial Revolution -- Information and intervention -- The final decades of Aristocratic rule -- The lady with the lamp -- Victorian Britain: the classless society -- Charles Darwin and the origin of species
505 0 $aComing to terms with democracy -- Ireland departs -- Pax Britannica -- Splendid isolation and war -- Two uncertain decades -- Alone -- Utopia comes and goes -- Consensus and the mismanagement of decline -- Empire to Europe -- A new beginning? -- The consumer society -- Postscript: Towards 2000.
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