A History Of The English-Speaking Peoples: Volume Ii: The New World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the pen of one of history's greatest statesmen comes a sweeping narrative of civilisation's most consequential chapter — A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume II: The New World chronicles the dramatic arc of the British world from the late medieval period through the early modern era, tracing the turbulent reigns of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, the birth of Parliament's power, and the first trembling steps of English colonisation across the Atlantic. Winston S. Churchill, writing with the authority of a man who shaped history himself, presents a vivid and authoritative account of the forces — religious, political, and military — that forged the English-speaking nations and projected their influence across the globe. Churchill's prose is at once magisterial and accessible, blending the rigour of scholarship with the narrative drive of a born storyteller, illuminating grand constitutional struggles and intimate human dramas with equal skill. The New World stands as the second volume of a four-part magnum opus, originally conceived in the 1930s and finally published in the late 1950s, now recognised as a landmark in popular historiography. For readers who wish to understand not merely what happened, but why it matters, this volume poses a question that echoes across centuries: how did a small island nation come to reshape the entire world?
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Cassell and Company Ltd
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the pen of one of history's greatest statesmen comes a sweeping narrative of civilisation's most consequential chapter — A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume II: The New World chronicles the dramatic arc of the British world from the late medieval period through the early modern era, tracing the turbulent reigns of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, the birth of Parliament's power, and the first trembling steps of English colonisation across the Atlantic. Winston S. Churchill, writing with the authority of a man who shaped history himself, presents a vivid and authoritative account of the forces — religious, political, and military — that forged the English-speaking nations and projected their influence across the globe. Churchill's prose is at once magisterial and accessible, blending the rigour of scholarship with the narrative drive of a born storyteller, illuminating grand constitutional struggles and intimate human dramas with equal skill. The New World stands as the second volume of a four-part magnum opus, originally conceived in the 1930s and finally published in the late 1950s, now recognised as a landmark in popular historiography. For readers who wish to understand not merely what happened, but why it matters, this volume poses a question that echoes across centuries: how did a small island nation come to reshape the entire world?