A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Binding: Hardback
Published: Dodd, Mead & Company, NY, 1956
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Worn and faded boards. Bumping on corners. Rubbed spine. Otherwise internally sound, no markings, clean text.
This four-volume history in the narrative history genre presents Winston Churchill’s sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural, and military development of the English-speaking peoples from antiquity to the modern age. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, chronicles the formation of English institutions, the Norman impact, and the feudal and monarchical foundations that shape later constitutional life. Volume II, The New World, presents the expansion across the Atlantic, the founding of settler societies, and the transatlantic ties that bind British and American destinies. Volume III, The Age of Revolution, details the upheavals of the 18th and early 19th centuries, arguing that constitutional reform, industrial change, and imperial competition redefined national character. Volume IV, The Great Democracies, illustrates the maturation of parliamentary democracy, the global responsibilities of English-speaking nations, and the ideological contests of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the set Churchill argues for continuity of legal and political traditions, stresses the moral and practical bonds of language and law, and frames history as a ledger of leadership, sacrifice, and national character.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Binding: Hardback
Published: Dodd, Mead & Company, NY, 1956
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Worn and faded boards. Bumping on corners. Rubbed spine. Otherwise internally sound, no markings, clean text.
This four-volume history in the narrative history genre presents Winston Churchill’s sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural, and military development of the English-speaking peoples from antiquity to the modern age. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, chronicles the formation of English institutions, the Norman impact, and the feudal and monarchical foundations that shape later constitutional life. Volume II, The New World, presents the expansion across the Atlantic, the founding of settler societies, and the transatlantic ties that bind British and American destinies. Volume III, The Age of Revolution, details the upheavals of the 18th and early 19th centuries, arguing that constitutional reform, industrial change, and imperial competition redefined national character. Volume IV, The Great Democracies, illustrates the maturation of parliamentary democracy, the global responsibilities of English-speaking nations, and the ideological contests of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the set Churchill argues for continuity of legal and political traditions, stresses the moral and practical bonds of language and law, and frames history as a ledger of leadership, sacrifice, and national character.