A History of the English Speaking Peoples, in Four Volumes: The Birth of Britain; The New World; The Age of Revolution; The Great Democracies

Four volume set. Each includes black-and-white photographs. An authoritative survey of the history of English-speaking peoples throughout the world combines intriguing, closely observed biographical profiles—of Alfred the Great, Victoria, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, and other notables—with an account of the key events and issues of the era. The narrative commences fifty-five years before the birth of Christ, when Julius Caesar famously 'turned his gaze upon Britain,' and concludes in the year 1900. CONTENTS: Volume One The Birth of Britain - BOOK 1 THE ISLAND RACE - Britannia; Subjugation; The Roman Province; The Lost Island; England; The Vikings; Alfred the Great; The Saxon Dusk BOOK II The Making of the Nation - The Norman Invasion; William the Conqueror; Growth Amid Turmoil; Henry Plantagenet; The English Common Law; Coeur De Lion; Magna Carta; On the Anvil; The Mother of Parliaments; King Edward I; Bannockburh; Scotland and Ireland; The Long-Bow; The Black Death; BOOK III The End of the Feudal Age - King Richard II and the Social Revolt; The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke; The Empire of Henry V; Joan of Arc; York and Lancaster; The Wars of the Roses; The Adventures of Edward IV; Richard III; Index; Volume Two - The New World - BOOK IV Renaissance and Reformation - The Round World; The Tudor Dynasty; King Henry VIII; Cardinal Wolsey; The Break with Rome; The End of the Monasteries; The Protestant Struggle; Good Queen Bess; The Spanish Armada; Gloriana; BOOK V - The Civil War - The United Crowns; The Mayflower; Charles I and Buckingham; The Personal Rule; The Revolt of Parliament; The Great Rebellion; Marston Moor and Naseby; The Axe Falls; BOOK VI - The Restoration - The English Republic; The Lord Protector; The Restoration; The Merry Monarch; The Popish Plot; Whig and Tory; The Catholic King; The Revolution of 1688; Index; VOLUME THREE - The Age of Revolution - BOOK VII - England's Advance to World Power - William of Orange; Continental War; The Spanish Succession; Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies; Oudenarde and Malplaquet; The Treaty of Utrecht; BOOK VIII - The First British Empire - The House of Hanover; Sir Robert Walpole; The Austrian Succession and the 'Forty-Five'; The American Colonies; The First World War; The Quarrel with America; The War of Independence; The United States; The Indian Empire; BOOK IX - Napoleon - The Younger Pitt; The American Constitution; The French Revolution; France Confronted; Trafalgar; The Emperor of the French; The Peninsular War and the Fall of Napoleon; Washington, Adams, and Jefferson; The War of 1812; Elba and Waterloo; Index; VOLUME FOUR - The Great Democracies - BOOK X - Recovery and Reform - The Victory Peace; Canning and the Duke; Reform and Free Trade; The Crimean War; Palmerston; The Migration of the Peoples. I: Canada and South Africa; The Migration of the Peoples II: Australia and New Zealand; BOOK XI The Great Republic - American Epic; Slavery and Secession; The Union in Danger; The Campaign Against Richmond; Lee and McClellan; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; The Victory of the Union; BOOK XII - The Victorian Age - The Rise of Germany; Gladstone and Disraeli; American 'Reconstruction'; America as a World Power; Home Rule of Ireland; Lord Salisbury's Governments; The South African War.