British History For Dummies Illustrated Edition英国史傻瓜书，插图版
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作者： Sean Lang 著
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出版时间： 2008-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 470印刷时间： 2008/12/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780470994689包装： 精装内容简介
History is always a popular subject and British history has created some of the most lively and fascinating stories there are! Britain as we know it today has been shaped by centuries of political turmoil between state and church, as well as international conflicts, making its history a fascinating insight into how modern Britain has emerged.
For this special, hardback edition of British History For Dummies, we’ve added over 100 black and white and colour photos for an even more explosive experience of British history.
British History For Dummies Illustrated Edition:
British history is still a major topic of interest, emphasised by the continual TV coverage and documentaries
Inside you’ll find rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings, executions, invasions, high treason, global empire-building and forbidden love- not bad for a nation of stiff upper lips!
Includes fascinating information in the fun For Dummies style- from the Stone Age right through to modern day Britain and everything in between!
Provides the ultimate British history experience and the hardback format with over 100 illustrations make it the perfect gift for amateur historians
作者简介：
Dr Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and has been teaching it to school, college, and university students for the past twenty years. He is enior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University.Sean has written textbooks on nineteenth and twentieth century history, and is co-editor of Twentieth Century History Review. He has advised both Government and Opposition on history teaching in schools and has written on history teaching for the Council of Europe. Sean is Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association and often appears on radio and television talking about historical topics - often because of this book.
目录
Introduction
Part 1 The British Are Coming!
Chapter 1: So Much History, So Little Time
Chapter 2: Sticks and Stone Age Stuff
Chapter 3: Woad Rage and Chariots: The Iron Age in Britain
Part 2 Everyone Else Is Coming!The Invaders
Chapter 4: Ruled Britannia
Chapter 5: Saxon, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
Chapter 6: Have Axe, Will Travel: The Vikings
Chapter 7:1066 and All That Followed
Part 3 Who's in charge Around Here?The Middle Ages
Chapter 8: England Gets an Empire
Chapter 9: A Right Royal Time: The Medieval Realms of Britain
Chapter 10: Plague, Pox, Poll Tax, and Ploughing - and Then You Die
Part 4 Rights or Royals?The Tudors and Stuarts
Chapter 11: Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown
Chapter 12: A Burning Issue: The Reformation
Chapter 13: Crown or Commons?
Chapter 14: Old Problems, New Ideas
Part 4 On the Up:The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centruries
Chapter 15: Let's Make a Country
Chapter 16: Survival of the Richest: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 17: Children of the Revolutions
Chapter 18: Putting on My Top Hat - The Victorians
Chapter 19: The Sun Never Sets - But It Don't Shine Either
Part 5 Don't Look Down:The Twentieth Century
Chapter 20: The Great War: The End of Innocence - and Everything Else?
Chapter 21: Radio Times
Chapter 22: TV Times
Chapter 23: Interesting Times
Part 6 The Part of Tens
Chapter 24: Ten Top Turning Points
Chapter 25: Ten Major Documents
Chapter 26: Ten Things the British Have Given the World(Whether the World Wanted Them or Not)
Chapter 27: Ten Great British Places to Visit
Chapter 28: Ten Britons Who Should Be Better Known
Index
