A History of the english-speaking peoples.

A History of the english-speaking peoples. Vol. III, The age of revolution

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Auteur principal: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965, .
Support: Livre
Langue: Français
Publié: Londres : Bloomsbury Academic.
Édition: Bloomsbury Revelations edition.
Collection: Bloomsbury revelations
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Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
Résumé: This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past."" The Daily Telegraph Spanning four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesars invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston Churchills most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchills wilderness years when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history. In The Age of Revolution the third volume of Churchills history Churchill charts the rise of Great Britain as a world power and the long rivalry with France, the shadow of the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and his defeat at Waterloo. The volume also covers the rise of the American colonies, their triumphant overthrow of British rule in the War of Independence and the first great generation of American leaders: Washington, Adams and Jefferson
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • book I. England's advance to world power (1. William of Orange
  • 2. Continental war
  • 3. The Spanish Succession
  • 4. Marlborough : Blenheim and Ramillies
  • 5. Oudenarde and Malplaquet
  • 6. The Treaty of Utrecht)
  • book II. The first British empire (7. The House of Hanover
  • 8. Sir Robert Walpole
  • 9. The Austrian succession and the "Forty-five"
  • 10. The American colonies
  • 11. The first world war
  • 12. The quarrel with America
  • 13. The War of Independence
  • 14. The United States
  • 15. The Indian empire)
  • book III. Napoleon (16. The younger Pitt
  • 17. The American Constitution
  • 18. The French Revolution
  • 19. France confronted
  • 20. Trafalgar
  • 21. The Emperor of the French
  • 22. The Peninsular War and the fall of Napoleon
  • 23. Washington, Adams, and Jefferson
  • 24. The War of 1812
  • 25. Elba and Waterloo)

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