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020 $z9781610391438 (EB ISBN on t.p. verso)
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050 00 $aDA30$b.J38 2011
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100 1 $aJenkins, Simon.
245 12 $aA short history of England :$bthe glorious story of a rowdy nation /$cSimon Jenkins.
246 30 $aHistory of England
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPublic Affairs,$cc2011.
300 $a384 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.) ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books Ltd." -- T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aIntroduction -- Saxon dawn : 400-600 -- The birth of England : 600-800 -- The Danes : 800-1066 -- William the Conqueror : 1066-1087 -- The Conqueror's children : 1087-1154 -- Henry and Becket : 1154-1189 -- Magna Carta : 1189-1216 -- Henry III and Simon de Montfort : 1216-1272 -- Hammering the Celts : 1272-1330 -- The Hundred Years War : 1330-1377 -- The Peasants' Revolt to the loss of France : 1377-1453 -- The Wars of the Roses : 1453-1483 -- Bosworth and Henry Tudor : 1483-1509 -- Henry VIII : 1509-1547 -- Reformation, Counter-Reformation : 1547-1558 -- Good Queen Bess : 1558-1603 -- Early Stuarts : 1603-1642 -- Civil War : 1642-1660 -- Restoration : 1660-1688 -- Glorious Revolution : 1688-1714 -- Walpole and Pitt the Elder " 1714-1774 -- From Boston to Waterloo : 1774-1815 -- The road to reform : 1815-1832 -- Victorian dawn : 1832-1868 -- Gladstone and Disraeli : 1868-1901 -- The Edwardians : 1901-1914 -- The First World War : 1914-1918 -- The locust years : 1918-1939 -- The Second World War : 1939-1945 -- The welfare state : 1945-1979 -- Thatcherism : 1979-1990 -- Thatcher's children : 1990-2011 -- Epilogue -- One hundred key dates -- Kings and queens of England from 1066 -- Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom -- Author's Note.
520 $aPresents an overview of the history of England from the Saxons to today and provides lists of kings and queens with the date of they ruled, prime ministers, and one hundred key dates in the nation's history.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory.