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It was enriched by many French words and ideas [ English society was old, elaborate, and artificial, while American society was new, simple, and raw. Trivia About A Shortened Histo Lots of stuff packed into a small space. Oct 31, Jim rated it really liked it. Return to Book Page. She has long been half European; she shall now become oceanic - and America as well, and yet remain English all the while p.

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An abridged version of his classic study, Trevelyan's 'A Shortened History of England' tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Vikings, the Norman Conquest, the first Elizabethan age and fou.

Commerce and manufacture are growing with the cloth trade, and are bursting the boundaries of medieval borough and guild.

A shortened history of England

The Danes had a word for acts of cowardice, desertion, or dishonourableness of any kind - "nidings voerk" - as distinct from ordinary breaches of the law, and more terribly englland by public opinion. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared.

Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the s to the mids, and of its successor, the Liberal Party. But the better policy shirtened an enforced minimum wage, though discussed, was unfortunately rejected as old-fashioned and unscientific.

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It was, indeed, a notable period in the higher civilization of the island, where all through the war great landscape painters, poets, and novelists were working for a large and eager class with the wealth and leisure to enjoy their works. By a gradual transition towards democracy, seldom hastening and never turning back, political rights were extended to all without a catastrophe.

English society was then still aristocratic, while American society was already democratic. No time for any questions at the end.

Their success with the Gauls was permanent, and became the starting point of modern European history.

Joel rated it liked it May 25, This great manouevre was safely acomplished because all classes and all parties showed, upon the whole, sound political sense and good humour, because the Victorian age was a period of peace and external security for Britain, and becuase its middle years were years of unexampled prosperity. Its moist and mossy floor was hidden from heaven's eye by a close-drawn curtain woven of innumerable tree-tops, which shivered in the breezes of summer dawn and broke into wild music of millions upon millions of wakening birds; the concert was prolonged from bough to bough with scarcely a break for hundreds of miles over hill and plain and mountain, unheard by man save where, at rarest intervals, a troop of skin-clad hunters, stone-axe in hand, moved furtively over the ground beneath, ignorant that they lived upon an island, not dreaming that there could be other parts of the world besides this damp green woodland with its meres and marshes, wherein they hunted, a terror to its four-footed inhabitants and themselves afraid.

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A Shortened History of England by George Macaulay Trevelyan

She has long been half European; she shall now become oceanic - and America as well, and yet remain English all the while p. A failure to make these adjustments would have led to a breakdown of the Parliamentary system and a war of histlry. Ther I read somewhere that Trevelyan's works are now "largely unread", which is a very great tragedy.

Pritam Chattopadhyay rated it liked it Jul 24, Based on Trevelyan's earlier, greater works, this single volume only covers through the s. Many merchants, like poor old Mr Sedley in Vanity Fair, were broken by the sudden opening and shutting of markets, or the rise and fall of war prices.

The period of Walpole and the Pitts was the heyday of the unchallenged abuses in all forms of corporate life. Turgut rated it it was amazing Jan 10, All three were at once the exploiters and the saviours of an otherwise helpless society. In England political opinion was mainly that of squires, while in America it was derived from farmers, water-side mobs, and frontiersmen of the forest.

Shortenedd the latter part of wngland history, from the First World War to the Second the book was published in get somewhat skimpier treatment, with events too fresh to get his full attention.

I picked up this book to learn from and not to read critically, so I can't offer a lot of insight into Trevelyan's integrity or originality as a scholar. Trevelyan was an English historian whose work, hisrory for the general reader as much as for the history student, shows an appreciation for the Whig traiditon in English thought and reflects a keen interest in the Anglo-Saxon element in the English constitution.

Be the first to ask a question about A Shortened History of England. There is no more romantic episode in the history of man than this underground growth and unconscious self-preparation of the despised island patois, destined ere long to "burst forth into sudden blaze," to be spoken in every quarter of the globe, and to produce a literature with which only that of ancient Hellas is comparable.

Meanwhile, Pitt's Act made Trade Unions illegal, so that the workmen found it difficult, in the face of hostile authority, to keep up wages in their proper relation to prices. For many centuries after Britain became an island the untamed forest was king.

Laymen are becoming learned and are thinking for themselves. English society was old, elaborate, and artificial, while American society was new, simple, and raw. But striking, vivid images eg the victorious Saxons who refused to live in abandoned Roman villas meaning that for "some centuries, the Roman ruins must have stood as a familiar a sight as the roofless abbeys under the Stuart Kin Incredibly concise and beautifully written narrative history of Britain from pre-Roman times to pre WW2.

Nor, on the other hand, had the Gauls and Britons an elaborate civilization of their own, like the inhabitants of the Greek and Oriental lands subject to Roman sway.