The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Fraser, Rebecca

Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition blue boards, dark blue spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Illustrations; Preface; Further Reading; Genealogies; Prime Ministers; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white maps, black-and-white drawings, and a black-and-white photographic frontispiece of The Battersea Shield. A 1/8th inch indent on front cover and 1 inch repaired closed tear at lower front jacket edge (see photographs). All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs) . "Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history. Just as much as kings and queens, battles and empire, Britain's great themes have been the liberty of the individual, the rule of law, and the parliamentary democracy invented to protect them. Ever since Caractacus and Boudicca surprised the Romans with the bravery of their resistance, Britain has stood out as the home of freedom. From Thomas More to William Wilberforce, from Gladstone to Churchill, Britain's history is studded with heroic figures who have resisted tyranny in all its guises, whether it be the Stuart kings' belief in divine right, the institution of slavery, or the ambitions of Napoleon and Hitler. Here is his tory that is meant to be read, and throughout the long and astonishing chronicle of events, never once does Fraser's eye for the telling detail or her instinct for dramatic narrative fail her. The murder of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, at the hands of Henry II's henchmen is a tense, spare piece of mayhem that would not be out of place in a novel by John le Carre; her description of the laconic Lord Rothschild casually putting up an unimaginable amount of money to buy the Suez Canal for the British government reads like a scene from an Oscar Wilde play." - from the inner front jacket flap. "For a robust, confident and splendidly engaging account of the men. and women who have governed England during the past two millennia, one can do no better than Rebecca Fraser's new book .[This] elegantly written, impressively well-informed, single-volume history .should be prescribed reading for all politicians." - Sunday Telegraph. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008172

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the...

Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2005

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Greenfield, Joan (jacket design); Bauer, Jerry (author photograph)

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition