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Penguin History Of Britain
The ''Penguin History of Britain'' is a popular book series on British history, published by Penguin Books. It appeared in nine volumes between 1996 and 2018, with many of the individual works subsequently being republished in several editions. Its general editor is David Cannadine, who also contributed a volume himself. Collectively, the books in the series span the period 54 BC to 1990 and include: * ''An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409'' (2006) by David Mattingly * ''Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070'' (2010) by Robin Fleming * ''The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066-1284'' (2003) by David Carpenter * ''The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages'' (2005) by Miri Rubin * ''New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603'' (2000) by Susan Brigden * ''A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714'' (1996) by Mark Kishlansky * ''A Wealth of Nations? Britain, 1707-1815'' by Linda Colley (To be published) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell (publisher), John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishers, Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
