A History of Britain by Carter, E.H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover A History of Britain Publication Schedule Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Glossary Outline Summary I Before the Romans

1 Cheddar Man 2 The Neolithic Revolution 3 The Age of Metals 4 Britain and the Celts

II The Roman Conquest of Britain

1 Britain as Seen from the Meditteranean 2 Caesar’s Expeditions, 55 and 54 BC 3 The Invasion of Claudius, AD 43 4 British Resistance and Boudicca, AD 60-1 5 The Consolidation of Roman Rule 6 Britain under Hadrian, AD 117-38

III Britain under Roman Rule

1 The Government of Britain 2 The Roman Army in Britain 3 The Economy of Roman Britain 4 Religion in Roman Britain

IV Britain Remodelled

1 The End of Roman Rule 2 The Re-shaping of Britain 3 The Languages of Britain 4 The Kingdoms of Britain

V The Conversion of Britain

1 Anglo-Saxon Paganism 2 The Conversion of Ireland 3 Christianity in the North 4 The Mission of St Augustine 5 The English Church in the late Seventh Century

VI Britain in the Eighth Century: The Ascendancy of Offa

1 The Age of Charlemagne 2 The Mercian Ascendancy 3 Economic Change 4 The Cultural Flowering of Anglo-Saxon England 5 Wales and Scotland in the 8th and 9th Centuries

VII Britain in the Ninth Century: The Impact of the Vikings

1 The Age of the Vikings 2 The Viking Onslaught 3 The Climax of the Viking Wars 4 Alfred and the Rebuilding of Wessex 5 The Impact of the Vikings

VIII Britain in the Tenth Century: The House of Wessex

1 The Tenth Century in Europe 2 The Conquest of England by Wessex 3 The Expansion of Scottish Power 4 The Re-ordering of Britain 5 The Civilization of Late Anglo-Saxon England 6 The Late Tenth Century Kings 7 The Victory of the Vikings

IX The Final Years of Anglo-Saxon England

1 The rule of Cnut, 1016-35 2 Succession Crises, 1035-42 3 The Reign of Edward the Confessor, 1042-66 4 1066

Conclusion Index Back Cover

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