{"product_id":"2940015801972","title":"Comic History of England","description":"TABLE OF CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINVASION OF CAESAR: THE DISCOVERY OF TIN AND CONSEQUENT ENLIGHTENMENT OF\u003cbr\u003eBRITAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VARIOUS ROMAN YOKES: THEIR GROWTH, DEGENERATION, AND FINAL\u003cbr\u003eELIMINATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ADVENT OF THE ANGLES: CAUSES WHICH LED TO THE REHABILITATION OF\u003cbr\u003eBRITAIN ON NEW LINES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INFLUX OF THE DANES: FACTS SHOWING CONCLUSIVELY THEIR INFLUENCE ON\u003cbr\u003eTHE BRITON OF TO-DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TROUBLOUS MIDDLE AGES: DEMONSTRATING A SHORT REIGN FOR THOSE WHO\u003cbr\u003eTRAVEL AT A ROYAL GAIT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DANISH OLIGARCHY: DISAFFECTIONS ATTENDING CHRONIC USURPATION\u003cbr\u003ePROCLIVITIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOTHER DISAGREEABLE CLAIMANTS: FOREIGN FOIBLES INTRODUCED, ONLY TO BE\u003cbr\u003eEXPUNGED WITH CHARACTERISTIC PUGNACITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NORMAN CONQUEST: COMPLEX COMMINGLING OF FACETIOUS ACCORD AND\u003cbr\u003eIMPLACABLE DISCORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FEUDAL SYSTEM: SUCCESSFUL INAUGURATION OF HOMOGENEAL METHODS FOR\u003cbr\u003eRESTRICTING INCOMPATIBLE DEMAGOGUES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE AGE OF CHIVALRY: LIGHT DISSERTATION ON THE KNIGHTS-ERRANT, MAIDS,\u003cbr\u003eFOOLS, PRELATES, AND OTHER NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS OF THAT PERIOD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONQUEST OF IRELAND: UNCOMFORTABLE EFFECTS FOLLOWING THE CULTIVATION OF\u003cbr\u003eAN ACQUISITORIAL PROPENSITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMAGNA CHARTA INTRODUCED: SLIGHT DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN OVERCOMING\u003cbr\u003eAN UNPOPULAR AND UNREASONABLE PREJUDICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFURTHER DISAGREEMENTS RECORDED: ILLUSTRATING THE AMIABILITY OF THE JEW\u003cbr\u003eAND THE PERVERSITY OF THE SCOT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIRRITABILITY OF THE FRENCH: INTERMINABLE DISSENSION, ASSISTED BY THE\u003cbr\u003ePLAGUE, CONTINUES REDUCING THE POPULATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMORE SANGUINARY TRIUMPHS: ONWARD MARCH OF CIVILIZATION GRAPHICALLY\u003cbr\u003eDELINEATED WITH THE HISTORIAN'S USUAL COMPLETENESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUNPLEASANT CAPRICES OF ROYALTY: INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING AS A SUBSIDIARY\u003cbr\u003eAID IN THE PROGRESS OF EMANCIPATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD III.: BEING AN ALLEGORICAL PANEGYRIC OF THE\u003cbr\u003eINCONTROVERTIBLE MACHINATIONS OF AN EGOTISTICAL USURPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDISORDER STILL THE POPULAR FAD: GENERAL ADMIXTURE OF PRETENDERS,\u003cbr\u003eRELIGION, POLITICS, AND DISGRUNTLED MONARCHS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: THE DEATH OF MARY REVIVED THE HOPES OF THE\u003cbr\u003eFRIENDS OF JAMES II., AND CONSPIRACIES WERE FORMED.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: GEORGE FOX.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: GENERAL BANKRUPTCY AND RUIN FOLLOWED THE CLOSING OF THE\u003cbr\u003eEXCHEQUER OR TREASURY BY CHARLES II. (1672).]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: CHARLES II.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: DUKE OF MONMOUTH IMPLORING FORGIVENESS OF JAMES II.\u003cbr\u003e(1685).]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINVASION OF CAESAR: THE DISCOVERY OF TIN AND CONSEQUENT ENLIGHTENMENT OF\u003cbr\u003eBRITAIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: BUST OF CAESAR.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the glad whinny of the first unicorn down to the tip end of the\u003cbr\u003enineteenth century, the history of Great Britain has been dear to her\u003cbr\u003edescendants in every land, 'neath every sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut to write a truthful and honest history of any country the historian\u003cbr\u003eshould, that he may avoid overpraise and silly and mawkish sentiment,\u003cbr\u003ereside in a foreign country, or be so situated that he may put on a\u003cbr\u003efalse moustache and get away as soon as the advance copies have been\u003cbr\u003esent to the printers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writer of these pages, though of British descent, will, in what he\u003cbr\u003emay say, guard carefully against permitting that fact to swerve him for\u003cbr\u003eone swift moment from the right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngland even before Christ, as now, was a sort of money centre, and\u003cbr\u003ethither came the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians for their tin.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165384425712,"sku":"2940015801972","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015801972","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}