A complete social and political history of England. Originally published in 1938. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce.
Unlike other popular histories of England, such as GM Trevelyan's English Social History, Morton is concerned with the lives and struggles of ordinary people. This doesn't mean he ignores other factors of history, but he is most concerned with the way that society changes. Morton plays particular attention to the changing economic situation and how this alters wider society.
But, he notes that while the changes in military technique arise from social changes, they in turn, react back upon society. "War became industrialised, employing more complicated instruments and involving more complicated financial arrangements." Gunpowder and firearms required money and industry and towns. Thus the new weapons were in the hands of a new class, which meant "Feudal wars, growing into national wars, transcended the organising capacity of the feudal system and hastened its decline."
Author(s): A. L. Morton
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Year: 1976
Language: English
City: London
Tags: History, UK, England, Colonialism, Imperialism, Monarchy, Feudalism
Contents
Foreword
I Tribes and Legions
II The Growth of Feudalism
III Feudal England
IV The Decline of Feudalism
V The End of the Middle Ages
VI The New Monarchy and the Bourgeoisie
VII Origin of the English Revolution
VIII The English Revolution
IX Commonwealth and Compromise
X Whig England
XI The Industrial Revolution
XII The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
XIII Liberal Ascendancy
XIV The Organisation of the Working Class
XV Colonial Expansion
XVI Origins of the First World War
XVII World War: World Crisis
A note About Books
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps
The Reading Generation [A note in Sindhi]
