The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England (Studies in Historiography)

by Anthony Brundage (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $98.34

  Reviews the story of A Short History of the English People by Green and published in 1874, a work revolving around the common people , as opposed to kings and statesmen. Brundage argues that this marked a shift in the writing of history - from the history of elites to a broader social history.