A Short History of the English People
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| Author | John Richard Green |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Macmillan Company |
Publication date | 1874 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 872 pp |
A Short History of the English People is a book written by English historian John Richard Green. Published in 1874, "it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People."[1]
Background and reception
[edit]Green began work on the book in 1869, having been given only six months to live after being hit hard by disease that had plagued him throughout his life.[2] Only having around 800 pages to write on, he had to leave out much of what he wanted to include.[citation needed] Green intentionally left out the battles of England feeling they did not play a big role in the formation of the nation, saying that historians "too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow men."[3] His new ideas, and omission of information that others felt important, meant Green was criticized by other historians as well as the people close to him.[citation needed]
Others thought highly of the book, including Francis Adams, who used quotations from the book in his poem The Peasants' Revolt.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Green, John Richard (1902). A Short History of the English People. Vol. I. London: Macmillan. p. xxiv.
- ^ Green, John Richard (1877). A Short History of the English People. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. iv–v.
- ^ Green, John Richard (1877). A Short History of the English People. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. iii.
- ^ Adams, Francis (1910). Songs of the Army of the Night (PDF). London: A. C. Fifield.
Bibliography
[edit]- Green, J. R. (1992) [1874]. A Short History of the English People. London: Folio Society.
External links
[edit]- The 1902–3 Macmillan illustrated-edition of the work at the Internet Archive: