History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual GuidePenguin, 2011 M05 2 - 400 páginas The History of Britain and Ireland traces the key events that shaped the societies living in the British Isles from the earliest times to the present day. From the Roman conquest of 43 CE to the Norman conquest of 1066, from the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Victorian age of Charles Dickens, and from the Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this beautifully illustrated book provides a definitive visual chronicle of the most colorful and defining episodes in British history. The story begins at least half a million years ago when humans started to make their home in Britain. Around 3000 BCE, the first Britons were making their mark on the landscape at remarkable sites such as the stone village of Skara Brae in Orkney and the earliest earthworks at Stonehenge. They entered the annals of recorded history with Julius Caesar's exploratory expedition across the Channel in the late summer of 55 BCE. From then on the small group of islands off the west coast of Europe was never far from the center of world affairs: pioneering the industrial revolution, creating the largest empire the world has ever seen, fighting two world wars in the 20th century, and finally coming to terms with a new status in a fast-changing global economy. The History of Britain and Ireland combines a spread-by-spread narrative of events with a wealth of supporting features on the decisive turning points in the long and fascinating story of the British Isles, and on the outstanding individuals-from Geoffrey Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth I to Charles Darwin and Winston Churchill-who helped shape that story. |
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BRITONS AND INVADERS UP TO 1066 8 | 9 |
Introduction 10 | 10 |
Timeline 12 | 12 |
Britains First People 14 | 14 |
Stone Age Britain 16 | 16 |
STONEHENGE 18 | 19 |
Iron Age Britain 20 | 20 |
Caesars Invasion 22 | 22 |
Scottish Jacobites 202 | 202 |
BATTLE OF CULLODEN 204 | 204 |
Politics and Prime Ministers 206 | 206 |
Power of the Pen 208 | 208 |
Commercial Expansion 210 | 210 |
Colonial Conquests 212 | 212 |
America is Lost 214 | 214 |
SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN 216 | 217 |
Conquest and Resistance 24 | 24 |
HADRIANS WALL 26 | 27 |
A Distant Province 28 | 28 |
Outside the Empire 30 | 30 |
Life in Roman Britain 32 | 32 |
End of Empire 34 | 34 |
THE SUTTON HOO SHIP BURIAL 36 | 37 |
Holy Ireland 38 | 38 |
AngloSaxon Rulers 40 | 40 |
FRANKS CASKET 42 | 43 |
Christian England 44 | 44 |
Viking Raiders and Settlers 46 | 46 |
BOOK OF KELLS 48 | 49 |
ALFRED THE GREAT 50 | 50 |
Wessex Takes the Lead 52 | 52 |
Ireland in the Viking Age 54 | 54 |
Triumph of the Danes 56 | 57 |
Independent Realms 58 | 58 |
King Edwards World 60 | 60 |
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN 10661485 62 | 63 |
Introduction 64 | 64 |
Timeline 66 | 66 |
Norman Conquest 68 | 68 |
BATTLE OF HASTINGS 70 | 70 |
Norman Realm 72 | 72 |
DOMESDAY BOOK 74 | 75 |
Reign of a Powerful King 76 | 76 |
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 78 | 79 |
Invasion of Ireland 80 | 81 |
England in the Crusades 82 | 82 |
Challenging Royal Authority 84 | 84 |
MAGNA CARTA 86 | 86 |
A Prosperous Realm 88 | 88 |
Subduing Wales 90 | 90 |
Scotlands Independence Struggle 92 | 92 |
BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN 94 | 95 |
Hundred Years War Begins 96 | 96 |
Knights and Bowmen 98 | 98 |
BATTLE OF CRÉCY 100 | 101 |
The Black Death 102 | 102 |
The Peasants Revolt 104 | 104 |
LUTTRELL PSALTER 106 | 107 |
Religious Enthusiasm 108 | 108 |
Poets of the People 110 | 110 |
ELY CATHEDRAL 112 | 112 |
Change of Dynasty 114 | 114 |
Invasion and Revolt 116 | 116 |
The Later Hundred Years War 118 | 118 |
Merchants and Guilds 120 | 120 |
The Wars of the Roses 122 | 122 |
MEDIEVAL WEAPONS 124 | 124 |
TUDORS AND STUARTS 14851688 126 | 127 |
Introduction 128 | 128 |
Timeline 130 | 130 |
The Early Tudors 132 | 132 |
HENRY VIII 134 | 134 |
Religious Upheaval 136 | 136 |
Scottish Troubles 138 | 138 |
ELIZABETH I 140 | 140 |
English Society under the Tudors 142 | 142 |
TUDOR LIFE 144 | 144 |
Sailors and Privateers 146 | 146 |
The War with Spain 148 | 148 |
THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA 150 | 150 |
The English Renaissance 152 | 152 |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 154 | 154 |
Conquest and Plantation 156 | 156 |
The Union of the Crowns 158 | 159 |
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT 160 | 161 |
Colonial Expansion 162 | 162 |
LONDON AND THE RIVER THAMES 164 | 165 |
Charles I and Parliament 166 | 166 |
The Civil War 168 | 168 |
THE EXECUTION OF THE KING 170 | 171 |
The Commonwealth 172 | 172 |
Scotland and Ireland Subdued 174 | 174 |
The Restoration 176 | 176 |
Commerce and War 178 | 178 |
Pepyss Londonm 180 | 180 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON 182 | 182 |
Enquiring Minds 184 | 184 |
ST PAULS CATHEDRAL 186 | 187 |
The Glorious Revolution 188 | 189 |
RISE OF POWER 16881815 190 | 191 |
Introduction 192 | 192 |
Timeline 194 | 194 |
Succession Wars 196 | 196 |
TREATY OF UNION 198 | 199 |
The House of Hanover 200 | 200 |
Georgian Society 218 | 218 |
LANDED GENTRY 220 | 221 |
Disorder and Religious Revival 222 | 222 |
Scottish Enlightenment 224 | 224 |
New Horizons in the Pacific 226 | 226 |
GEORGIAN TRADE 228 | 229 |
Modernizing Agriculture 230 | 230 |
Inventors and Entrepreneurs 232 | 232 |
The Antislavery Movement 234 | 234 |
Reaction to the Revolution 236 | 236 |
Rebellion in Ireland 238 | 238 |
Napoleonic Wars 240 | 240 |
ADMIRAL NELSON 242 | 242 |
The War of 1812 244 | 244 |
BATTLE OF WATERLOO 246 | 247 |
INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE 18151914 248 | 249 |
Introduction 250 | 250 |
Timeline 252 | 252 |
The Regency 254 | 254 |
BRIGHTON PAVILION 256 | 256 |
Steam and Speed 258 | 258 |
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL 260 | 260 |
ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE 262 | 262 |
Years of Change 264 | 264 |
The Irish Famine 266 | 266 |
The Triumph of Reform 268 | 268 |
QUEEN VICTORIA 270 | 270 |
THE GREAT EXHIBITION 272 | 273 |
The Crimean War 274 | 274 |
Workshop of the World 276 | 276 |
Victorian Values 278 | 278 |
VICTORIAN ENTERTAINMENT 280 | 280 |
Cultural Conflict 282 | 282 |
VICTORIAN WORKHOUSE 284 | 285 |
Exploring the World 286 | 286 |
CHARLES DARWIN 288 | 288 |
British India 290 | 290 |
INDIAN MUTINY 292 | 292 |
Dominions and Emigrants 294 | 294 |
Imperialist Muscle 296 | 296 |
RAILWAY STATION 298 | 298 |
Irish Home Rule 300 | 300 |
The Boer War 302 | 302 |
The Edwardian Age 304 | 304 |
SINKING OF THE TITANIC 306 | 307 |
The Suffragettes 308 | 309 |
Trade Unionists and Socialists 310 | 310 |
The Road to War 312 | 312 |
MODERN TIMES 1914present 314 | 315 |
Introduction 316 | 316 |
Timeline 318 | 318 |
Britain Enters the Great War 320 | 320 |
Victory through Slaughter 322 | 322 |
FIRST DAY OF THE SOMME 324 | 325 |
The Home Front 326 | 326 |
WAR GRAVES 328 | 329 |
Peace and After 330 | 331 |
Irish independence 332 | 332 |
Crisis and Depression 334 | 334 |
THE JARROW MARCH 336 | 337 |
Life in the Twenties and Thirties 338 | 338 |
DOMESTIC APPLIANCES 340 | 340 |
Imperial Issues 342 | 342 |
The Abdication of Edward VIII 344 | 345 |
Slide to War 346 | 346 |
Britain Alone 348 | 349 |
WINSTON CHURCHILL 350 | 350 |
THE BLITZ 352 | 353 |
Life in Wartime Britain 354 | 354 |
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 356 | 356 |
An Allied Victory 358 | 358 |
The Postwar Years 360 | 360 |
The Modern Monarchy 362 | 362 |
Retreat from Empire 364 | 364 |
THE SUEZ CRISIS 366 | 367 |
The Cold War 368 | 369 |
Never Had it so Good 370 | 370 |
Britain Goes Pop 372 | 372 |
BEATLEMANIA 374 | 375 |
Conflict in Society 376 | 376 |
Troubles in Northern Ireland 378 | 378 |
Turn to the Right 380 | 380 |
MARGARET THATCHER 382 | 382 |
Wars in Peacetime 384 | 384 |
Facing the Future 386 | 386 |
Monarchs and Rulers 388 | 388 |
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