The EnglishISBN: 978-0-631-19606-8
Paperback
264 pages
February 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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"This book will surely be recognised as the best single-volume
concise history of England - lively, authoritative, and yet
personal and humane. Only Elton could have written it." Michael
Clanchy
"This work is thoughtful, witty, and graceful in style, a marvel of compression ... Elton argues forcefully that the English formed, and were formed by, a unique reconciliation of individual freedom with monarchically supervised order. Like Joseph Strayer's on The Medieval Origins of the Modern State (1986), this splendid work is a brief distillation of a lifetime of thoughtful scholarship and deep reflection." Choice
"Anyone may enjoy this book." The Times
"A study that is both authoritative and individualistic, showing a full awareness but not a full acceptance of recent research." Teaching History