Britain As a European Power (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Browning, Andrew

9781440050657: Britain As a European Power (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10 : 1440050651 ISBN 13 : 9781440050657

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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To PREFACE -N oone who has had any experience can fail to have Vbeen struck by the difficulty which the average reader finds in estabH shing a proper connection between the events of European and of British History. From the very beginning history is presented to him in two ~water-tight compartments. His first book tells him Vabout Britain, or at least about England ;but with -o little enough space at its disposal even for this task Vit naturally refrains from mentioning events on the Continent except when some reference to them is absolutely necessary. His second book deals withE urope, but takes for granted an existing knowledge of British History on the part of its readers, and practically omits Britain altogether. As a result the reader too often thinks of Britain wj as a country which had little or no part in the life ofo Europe, and judging unconsciously from the size of his books assumes that Britain was about as important as all the rest of Europe put together. He reads of theN orman Conquest, but fails to grasp that the invasion of England was only one of many Jenterprises which theN ormans carried out in the eleventh century. He studies the development of the reformation in Britain, but only dimly comprehends that there was at the same time a reformation going on in Europe, of which theB ritish reformation was only a somewhat isolated part.
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