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This is a provocative and panoramic survey of 2,000 years of English history. Johnson tells the story of how a small nation, living in a geographical backwater, developed unique economic and political institutions, expanded its territory, and saddled upon it the frame of a modern industrial society.
"Beautifully constructed…An idiosyncratic viewpoint has enabled Mr. Johnson to extract a great deal of new information to add to the conventional account of English, or British, history."
"He is abreast of modern scholarship, and a reader with some command of English history will find Johnson's iconoclasm stimulating and challenging. His coverage of the last 200 years deserves to be labeled brilliant historical journalism."
"This is a John Bull of a book, the sort of book that Cobbett might have written…Splendid stuff."
"An excellent book that will stir up a great many people, and so it should.
"Beautifully constructed…An idiosyncratic viewpoint has enabled Mr. Johnson to extract a great deal of new information to add to the conventional account of English, or British, history."
"He is abreast of modern scholarship, and a reader with some command of English history will find Johnson's iconoclasm stimulating and challenging. His coverage of the last 200 years deserves to be labeled brilliant historical journalism."
"This is a John Bull of a book, the sort of book that Cobbett might have written…Splendid stuff."
"An excellent book that will stir up a great many people, and so it should.