{"product_id":"2940013803060","title":"The Leading Facts of English History","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading Dates  xviii\u003cbr\u003ePeriod\u003cbr\u003eI. Britain before Written History began\u003cbr\u003eII. The Geography of England in Relation to its History\u003cbr\u003eIII. Roman Britain; A Civilization which did not civilize\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Coming of the Saxons[1]; the Coming of the Normans\u003cbr\u003eV. The Norman Sovereigns[1]\u003cbr\u003eVI. The Angevins, or Plantagenets; Rise of the English Nation[1]\u003cbr\u003eVII. The Self-Destruction of Feudalism\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Absolutism of the Crown; the Reformation; the New Learning[1]\u003cbr\u003eIX. The Stuart Period; the Divine Right of Kings versus the Divine\u003cbr\u003e   Right of the People\u003cbr\u003eX. India gained; America lost--Parliamentary Reform--Government by the\u003cbr\u003e   People\u003cbr\u003eA General Summary of English Constitutional History\u003cbr\u003eConstitutional Documents\u003cbr\u003eGenealogical Descent of the English Sovereigns[2]\u003cbr\u003eA Classified List of Books\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Reading References on Topics of English History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[1] Each of these six Periods is followed by a General Reference\u003cbr\u003eSummary of that period.  See pp. 43, 71, 141, 174, 230, 316\u003cbr\u003e[2] For special Genealogical Tables see pp. 124, 140, 161, 172, 179,\u003cbr\u003e207, 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions to Teachers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writer of this brief manual is convinced that no hard-and-fast\u003cbr\u003erules can be laid down for the use of a textbook in history.  He\u003cbr\u003ebelieves that every teacher will naturally pursue a system of his own,\u003cbr\u003eand that by so doing he will get better results than if he attempt to\u003cbr\u003efollow a rigid mechanical course which makes no allowance for\u003cbr\u003eindividual judgment and gives no scope to originality of method.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author would simply suggest that where time is limited it might be\u003cbr\u003ewell to omit the General Reference Summaries (see, for instance,\u003cbr\u003ep. 43) and to read the text as a continuous narrative.  Then the\u003cbr\u003eimportant points in each day's lesson might be talked over at the end\u003cbr\u003eof the recitation or on the following day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the other hand, where time permits a thorough course of study, all\u003cbr\u003eof the topics might be taken up and carefully examined, and the\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Reference Summaries may be consulted by way of review and for\u003cbr\u003eadditional information.  The pupil can also be referred to one or more\u003cbr\u003ebooks (see the Classified List of Books in the Appendix) on the\u003cbr\u003esubjects under consideration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead of the teacher's asking a prescribed set of routine questions,\u003cbr\u003ethe pupil may be encouraged to ask his on.  Thus in undertaking the\u003cbr\u003eexamination of a given topic--say, the Battle of Hastings (SS69-75),\u003cbr\u003ethe issue of the Great Charter (SS195-202), or \"The Industrial\u003cbr\u003eRevolution\" and Watt's invention of an improved Steam Engine\u003cbr\u003e(S563)--there are five inquiries which naturally arise and which\u003cbr\u003epractically cover the whole ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are: 1. When did the event occur?  2. Where did it occur?\u003cbr\u003e3. How did it occur?  4. What caused it?  5. What came of it?  It will\u003cbr\u003esoon be seen that these five questions call attention first to the\u003cbr\u003echronology of he event, secondly to its geography, thirdly to the\u003cbr\u003enarrative describing it, fourthly to its relations to preceding\u003cbr\u003eevents, and fifthly to its relations to subsequent events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pupil will find that while in some instances he can readily obtain\u003cbr\u003eanswers for all of these inquiries,--for example, in the case of the\u003cbr\u003eGreat Charter,--in other instances he will have to content himself\u003cbr\u003ewith the answer to only a part of the questions, perhaps, in fact, to\u003cbr\u003eonly a single one; nevertheless the search will always prove\u003cbr\u003einstructive and stimulating.  Such a method of study, or one akin to\u003cbr\u003eit, will teach the pupil to think and to examine for himself.  It will\u003cbr\u003elead him to see the inevitable limitations and the apparent\u003cbr\u003econtradictions of history.  It will make him realize, as pehaps\u003cbr\u003enothing else can, that the testimony of different writers must be\u003cbr\u003etaken like that of witnesses in a court of justice.  He will see that\u003cbr\u003ewhile authorities seldem entirely agree respecting details, they will\u003cbr\u003egenerally agree in regard to the main features of important events.\u003cbr\u003eLast of all, and best as well as last, these five questions will be\u003cbr\u003efound to open up new and broader fields of inquiry, and they may\u003cbr\u003eperhaps encourage the pupil to continue his work on some subject in\u003cbr\u003ewhich he becomes interested, beyond the limits of the textbook and the\u003cbr\u003eclassroom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePursued in this way, the study of history will cease to be a dry\u003cbr\u003edelving for dead facts in the dust of a dead past.  It will rouse\u003cbr\u003ethought, it will quicken the pulse of an intellectual life, and it\u003cbr\u003ewill end by making the pupil feel the full force of the great truth:\u003cbr\u003ethat the present is an outgrowth of the past, and that it is only when\u003cbr\u003ewe know what men have done, that we can hope to understnad what they\u003cbr\u003eare now doing.\u003cbr\u003e                                                D. H. M.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166292656368,"sku":"2940013803060","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013803060_p0.jpg?v=1763590470","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013803060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}