TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHURCHILL Winston S
TI  - A history of the English-speaking peoples: volume I: the birth of Britain
SN  - 0304340995 (hbk.)
PY  - 1991///
CY  - London
PB  - Cassell
KW  - GREAT BRITAIN
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
N2  - First published: London: Cassell, 1956; Based on the research of modern historians as well as a wealth of primary source material, Churchill's popular and readable A History of the English-Speaking Peoples was respected by scholars as well as the public in its day - a testament both to its integrity as a work of historical scholarship and its accessibility to laypeople. Churchill used primary sources to masterful effect, quoting directly from a range of documents, from Caesar's invasions of Britain to the beginning of the First World War, to provide valuable insights into those figures who played a leading role in British history. In the last of his epic four-volume account, Churchill begins at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and ends with the Boer War of 1902. Here, Churchill presents his case for the importance of English-speaking peoples in world history and the dissemination of economic and political ideas that have changed the world
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