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An illustrated History of Britain / McDowall, David
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Tytuł
An illustrated History of Britain
Wydawnictwo
London: Longman, 1993
Numer wydania
6
ISBN
0-563-04435-4
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Earliest times
Chapter 1 The foundation stones 3
The island _ Britain's prehistory _ The Celts _ The Romans _ Roman life
Chapter 2 The Saxon invasion 11
The invaders _ Government and society _ Christianity: the partnership of Church
and state _ The Vikings _ Who should be king?
Chapter 3 The Celtic kingdoms 18
Wales _ Ireland _ Scotland
The early Middle Ages
Chapter 4 Conquest and feudal rule 23
The Norman Conquest _ Feudalism _ Kingship: a family business _ Magna Carta
and the decline of feudalism
Chapter 5 The power of the kings of England 29
Church and state _ The beginnings of Parliament _ Dealing with the Celts
Chapter 6 Government and society 34
The growth of government _ Law and justice _ Religious beliefs _ Ordinary people
in country and town _ The growth of towns as centres of wealth _ Language,
literature and culture
The late Middle Ages
Chapter 7 The century of war, plague and disorder 43
War with Scotland and France _ The age of chivalry _ The century of plagues _
The poor in revolt _ Heresy and orthodoxy
Chapter 8 The crisis of kings and nobles 51
The crisis of kingship _ Wales in revolt _ The struggle in France _ The Wars of the
Roses _ Scotland
Chapter 9 Government and society 57
Government and society _ The condition of women _ Language and culture
The Tudors
Chapter 10 The birth of the nation state 67
The new monarchy _ The Reformation _ The Protestant-Catholic struggle
Chapter 11 England and her neighbours 73
The new foreign policy _ The new trading empire _ Wales _ Ireland _ Scotland and
England _ Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation _ A Scottish king for
England
Chapter 12 Government and society 79
Tudor parliaments _ Rich and poor in town and country _ Domestic life _
Language and culture
The Stuarts
Chapter 13 Crown and Parliament
Parliament against the Crown _ Religious disagreement _ Civil war
Chapter 14 Republican and Restoration Britain
Republican Britain _ Catholicism, the Crown and the new constitutional
monarchy _ Scotland and Ireland _ Foreign relations
Chapter 15 Life and thought
The revolution in thought _ Life and work in the Stuart age _ Family life
The eighteenth century____________________
Chapter 16 The political world
Politics and finance _ Wilkes and liberty _ Radicalism and the loss of the American
colonies _ Ireland _ Scotland
Chapter 17 Life in town and country
Town life _ The rich _ The countryside _ Family life
Chapter 18 The years of revolution
Industrial revolution _ Society and religion _ Revolution in France and the
Napoleonic Wars
The nineteenth century
Chapter 19 The years of power and danger
The danger at home, 1815-32 _ Reform _ Workers revolt _ Family life
Chapter 20 The years of self-confidence
The railway _ The rise of the middle classes _ The growth of towns and cities _
Population and politics _ Queen and monarchy _ Queen and empire _ Wales,
Scotland and Ireland
Chapter 21 The end of an age
Social and economic improvements _ The importance of sport _ Changes in
thinking _ The end of "England's summer" _ The storm clouds of war
The twentieth century
Chapter 22 Britain at war
The First World War _ The rise of the Labour Party _ The rights of
women _ Ireland _ Disappointment and depression _ The Second World War
Chapter 23 The age of uncertainty
Chapter 1 The foundation stones 3
The island _ Britain's prehistory _ The Celts _ The Romans _ Roman life
Chapter 2 The Saxon invasion 11
The invaders _ Government and society _ Christianity: the partnership of Church
and state _ The Vikings _ Who should be king?
Chapter 3 The Celtic kingdoms 18
Wales _ Ireland _ Scotland
The early Middle Ages
Chapter 4 Conquest and feudal rule 23
The Norman Conquest _ Feudalism _ Kingship: a family business _ Magna Carta
and the decline of feudalism
Chapter 5 The power of the kings of England 29
Church and state _ The beginnings of Parliament _ Dealing with the Celts
Chapter 6 Government and society 34
The growth of government _ Law and justice _ Religious beliefs _ Ordinary people
in country and town _ The growth of towns as centres of wealth _ Language,
literature and culture
The late Middle Ages
Chapter 7 The century of war, plague and disorder 43
War with Scotland and France _ The age of chivalry _ The century of plagues _
The poor in revolt _ Heresy and orthodoxy
Chapter 8 The crisis of kings and nobles 51
The crisis of kingship _ Wales in revolt _ The struggle in France _ The Wars of the
Roses _ Scotland
Chapter 9 Government and society 57
Government and society _ The condition of women _ Language and culture
The Tudors
Chapter 10 The birth of the nation state 67
The new monarchy _ The Reformation _ The Protestant-Catholic struggle
Chapter 11 England and her neighbours 73
The new foreign policy _ The new trading empire _ Wales _ Ireland _ Scotland and
England _ Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation _ A Scottish king for
England
Chapter 12 Government and society 79
Tudor parliaments _ Rich and poor in town and country _ Domestic life _
Language and culture
The Stuarts
Chapter 13 Crown and Parliament
Parliament against the Crown _ Religious disagreement _ Civil war
Chapter 14 Republican and Restoration Britain
Republican Britain _ Catholicism, the Crown and the new constitutional
monarchy _ Scotland and Ireland _ Foreign relations
Chapter 15 Life and thought
The revolution in thought _ Life and work in the Stuart age _ Family life
The eighteenth century____________________
Chapter 16 The political world
Politics and finance _ Wilkes and liberty _ Radicalism and the loss of the American
colonies _ Ireland _ Scotland
Chapter 17 Life in town and country
Town life _ The rich _ The countryside _ Family life
Chapter 18 The years of revolution
Industrial revolution _ Society and religion _ Revolution in France and the
Napoleonic Wars
The nineteenth century
Chapter 19 The years of power and danger
The danger at home, 1815-32 _ Reform _ Workers revolt _ Family life
Chapter 20 The years of self-confidence
The railway _ The rise of the middle classes _ The growth of towns and cities _
Population and politics _ Queen and monarchy _ Queen and empire _ Wales,
Scotland and Ireland
Chapter 21 The end of an age
Social and economic improvements _ The importance of sport _ Changes in
thinking _ The end of "England's summer" _ The storm clouds of war
The twentieth century
Chapter 22 Britain at war
The First World War _ The rise of the Labour Party _ The rights of
women _ Ireland _ Disappointment and depression _ The Second World War
Chapter 23 The age of uncertainty