Dimensions
155 x 235 x 35mm
A Survey of English History from Earliest Times to the End of Empire
John Bowle considers that the undoubted historical success of England has been a triumph, not of any commitment to abstract political principles but rather to the absence of it; to a pragmatism maintained through the centuries within a relatively fluid and adaptable social order. In this narrative survey of the whole range of English history from earliest times to the end of the empire, Professor Bowle provides the political and administrative framework without which it is impossible to understand social and historical developments, but he also devotes a large part of his survey to social economic themes.
His well-known narrative skill is deployed in illuminating the personalities of his story as well as the events - bringing them to life in their own words and those of their contemporaries. He quotes extensively from original documents ranging from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles to a love letter of Henry VIII.
Handling the richness and complexity of his subject with consummate skill, the author includes many of the famous stories of English history, gradually building up a picture of the whole flow of English history.
