Verlag: U.K / Penguin, 2001
ISBN 10: 0140295186 ISBN 13: 9780140295184
Anbieter: Bookenastics, Liverpool, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. This is a comprehensive guide to the richly eventful history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Drawing on the very latest findings of historians and archaeologists, and illustrated throughout with detailed maps and photographs, it follows the story of the British Isles from the arrival of the first humans half a million years ago right up to the modern day. It traces the unfolding of major events, including the Roman conquest, the Black Death, the Civil War, the rise and fall of the British Empire. It looks at the life of society: the growth of towns, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the changing languages of the British Isles, the spread of literacy. This is a 1st edition hardback, with its dustjacket in fine condition. (320 pages). This is a heavy book over 2kg, so there will be an extra postage charge.
Verlag: Penguin, London England, 2001
ISBN 10: 0140295186 ISBN 13: 9780140295184
Anbieter: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Uk Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History. From Earliest Times to the Present Day. This book is a comprehensive guide to the richly eventful history of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland from the arrival of the first humans half a million years ago right up to the present day. Drawing on the very latest findings of historians and archaeologists, and illustrated throughout with colour maps and photiographs, the Atlas offers a diverse and multi-faceted vuiew of history. As well as covering landmark events, including the Roman conquest, the Black Death and the changing languages of the British Isles, it also explores some gascinating new historicalo themes, like the ascent of the Victorian seaside resort and the routes of organised sport.l Throughout the atloas, historicalo overviews are supplemented by detail regional studies that reveal the ways in which history actually affected local communities. In addition artwork reconstructions of major settlements as they were at key moments in their development - York at the time of the Vikings, Dublin in the eighteen century, industrial Manchester - show graohically just how the face of the British Isles has changed over the centuries. Meticulously researced by a team of some forty academics and experts, this is a wonderfully kalidoscopic account that brings the history of the Britiswh Isles vividly to life. Illustrated. 320 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).