English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Smith, Lacey Baldwin

English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780897335478)

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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Smith, Lacey Baldwin

English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable

$17.95
English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Smith, Lacey Baldwin

English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one. The guiding principle of this book's heretical approach is that "history is not everything that happened, but what is worth remembering about the past.. . .". Thus, its chapters deal mainly with "Memorable History" in blocks of time over the centuries. The final chapter "The Royal Soap Opera," recounts the achievements, personalities and idiocies of the royal family since the arrival of William the Conqueror in 1066. Spiced with dozens of hilarious cartoons from Punch and other publications, English History will be a welcome and amusing tour of a land that has always fascinated Anglophiles and Anglophobes alike.

Author: Lacey Baldwin Smith
ISBN-10: 0897335473
ISBN-13: 9780897335478
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By Lacey Baldwin Smith
By Lacey Baldwin Smith
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Lacey Baldwin Smith was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1922. Following graduate work at Princeton University, he went on to teach there and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University, where until his retirement he was Professor of History and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities. He taught at Northwestern in an emeritus capacity. Smith was the recipient of two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous other awards, honors, and academic appointments, including membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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