English Social History
by G.M. Trevelyan
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Social history, writes G.M. Trevelyan, is the history of a people with the politics left out. This book offers an unparalleled portrait of everyday English life, from the emergence of the English as a racial and cultural unit in Chaucer's day through six varied and kaleidoscopic centuries to 1901. Beneath the surface of the great changes in political and military history social change moves like an underground river; it is Trevelyan's unique achievement in this inspiring and evocative book show more to capture every tiny detail of its ebb and flow. show lessTags
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some age wear to some vols. but VG cond. overall for all vols - complete set
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- Original publication date
- 1942 (US and Canada) (US and Canada); 1944 (UK) (UK)
- People/Characters
- Geoffrey Chaucer; Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
- Important places
- England, UK
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- To the memory of Eileen Power, economic and social historian
- First words
- Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Introduction.
Although I have attempted to bring this book up to date in the light of the most recent publications (1941), it was nearly all written before the war.
Introduction (Reprint Society ed., 1948).
In Chaucer's England we see for the first time the modern mingling with the mediaeval, and England herself beginning to emerge as a distinct nation, no longer a mere overseas extension of Franco-Latin Europe.
Chapt... (show all)er I. Chaucer's England [1340-1400]. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The best place, therefore, to bring to an end a social history of England is the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the railway age.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This is the complete set, whether in 4 volumes, in 2 volumes, or the one volume edition. Do not use for individual volumes of the 4-volume or 2-volume set.
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