The English
Book Details
Author(s)Geoffrey Elton
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN0631196064
ISBN-139780631196068
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Sales Rank2,423,667
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A survey of the English experience through a thousand years and more, this book concentrates on the lasting characteristics of a people who early on discovered the fact of a national identity. The outstanding hallmarks of this experience were the existence of a strong central authority (in the monarchy), the provision of a system of law, and with these two the possibility of preserving individual rights and liberties in the face of a long sequence of historical vicissitudes.
