A history of the English-speaking peoples /
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New York :
Greenwich House,
1983.
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| Edition: | 1st. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book i: The birth of Britain ; The island race ; Britannia ; Subjugation ; The Roman province ; The lost island ; England ; The vikings ; Alfred the Great ; The Saxon dusk
- Book ii:The making of the nation: The Norman invasion ; William the conqueror ; Growth amid turmoil ; Henry Plantagenet ; The English common law ; Coeur De Lion ; Magna Carta ; On the anvil ; The mother of Parliaments ; King Edward I ; Bannockburn ; Scotland and Ireland ; The long-bow ; The black death
- Book iii: The end of the feudal age: King Richard II and the social revolt ; The usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke ; The empire of Henry V ; Joan of Arc ; York and Lancaster ; The wars of the roses ; The adventures of Edward IV ; Richard III
- Book iv: Renaissance and reformation: The round world ; The Tudor dynasty ; King Henry VIII ; Cardinal Wolsey ; The break with Rome ; The end of the Monasteries ; The protestant struggle ; Good Queen Bess ; The Spanish Armada ; Gloriana
- Book v: The Civil War: The United crowns ; The Mayflower ; Charles I and Buckingham ; The personal rule ; The revolt of parliament ; The great rebellion ; Marston Moor and Naseby ; The Axe Falls
- Book vi: The restoration ; The English Republic ; The Lord protector ; The restoration ; The Merry monarch ; The Popish plot ; Whig and Tory ; The Catholic King ; The Revolution of 1688
- Book vii: England's advance to world power: William of Orange ; Continental War ; The Spanish succession ; Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies ; Oudenarde and Malplaquet ; The Treaty of Utrecht
- Book viii: The first British empire: The House of Hanover ; Sir Robert Walpole ; The American colonies
- The First World War
- The quarrel with America
- The war of independence
- The United States
- The Indian empire
- Book ix: Napoleon: The American constitution ; The younger Pitt ; Britain confronts the French Revolution ; Trafalgar
- The emperor of the French ; Washington, Adams, and Jefferson ; The war of 1812 ; Elba and Waterloo
- Book x: Recovery and reform: The victory peace ; Canning and the Duke ; Reform and free trade ; The Crime an War ; Palmerston ; The migration of the peoples. i: Canada and South Africa
- The migration of the peoples: ii.Australia and New Zealand
- Book xi: The Great Republic: American epic ; Slavery and secession ; The Union in danger ; The campaign against Richmond ; Lee and McClellan ; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg ; The victory of the Union
- Book xii: The Victorian age: The rise of Germany ; Gladstone and Disraeli ; American "reconstruction" ; America as a world power ; Home rule for Ireland ; Lord Salisbury's governments.