2 edition of people"s history of England. found in the catalog.
people"s history of England.
Morton, A. L.
Published
1938
by Random House in New York
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Written in
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A good rule of thumb is that if a book on British History compiles the years between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Norman conquest into only a couple chapters, it isn't a very good book and it is likely to treat potentially legendary accounts such as Hengest and Horsa as fact and, even worse, will probably adopt the. A.L. Morton's A People's History of England is an extraordinarily readable Marxist Leslie Morton was a Communist Party activist and chair of the influential Communist Historians Group. His book became a sort of unofficial history book for the CPGB, though it has none of the dogmatic politics that sometimes mars the later writing of that : Resolute Reader.
A People's History of Britain tells the story - from the Romans to the present day - of the small northern islands off the coast of Europe which became the world's biggest empire. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the larger-than-life characters who forged Britain's national institutions is an enjoyable introduction to British history, and /5(18). An American reprinting of a work originally issued in London in , Dickens' delightful, first-person history of England, largely a story of its royalty and religion from the Druids and ancient Briton kings to the s, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, is told with the easy grace of a legendary story teller's understanding of his.
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The difference between this book and what Morton would call “a bourgeois history” is the attention he gives to the status and political behavior of various social classes.
Karl Marx believed that if you know the source and /5(6). A People’s History of England is written with the erudition and gracefulness we can expect from a Cambridge graduate.
The difference between this book and what Morton would call “a bourgeois history” is the attention he gives to Cited by: A People's History of England book. Read 11 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
A complete social and political history of England.C /5(11). Buy A People's History of England by Morton, A. (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(7). Addeddate Identifier Identifier-ark ark://t4wh80g2d Ocr ABBYY FineReader Ppi. Fascinating for the general reader and the historian alike, A People's History of England - which has been continuously in print for more than fifty years - is the indispensable work on the subject.
Excerpt. One of the problems of writing history is to know where to stop, since history goes on continuously while a book has got to end somewhere. Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Morton, A.L.
(Arthur Leslie), People's history of England. New York, Random House []. This classic work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of English history - from the point of view of the ordinary people - in a clear and jargon-free style.
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it sets out to give the reader a general idea of the main lines of the movement of our. A people's history, or history from below, is a type of historical narrative which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than leaders.
There is an emphasis on disenfranchised, the oppressed, the poor, the nonconformists, and otherwise marginal authors are typically on the left and have a Marxist model in mind, as in. I first saw this book a little less than a year ago in an out-of-the-way bookstore in Spanish Harlem, was immediately struck by the similarity between its title and that of Howard Zinns masterpiece, A Peoples History of the United States, saw the quote from Zinn himself at the bottom of the front cover (An indispensable volume on my reference 4/5.
This classic work lays out the main outlines and most important turning points of British history - from the point of view of the ordinary people - in a clear and jargon-free style.
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