num_pages: 418
description: The Past Speaks provides primary documents arranged thematically to address a number of historical problems from Saxon times to the Major government. Volume I includes new treatment of women in the Middle Ages, sixteenth-century family life, the religious causes of the English Civil War, and seventeenth-century millenarianism. Volume II includes new selections on the impact of the French Revolution, Victorian sexuality, and trench warfare in World War I, and new chapters on political and economic issues between the two world wars and the end of the British Empire.
language: English
title: The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History, Vol. 1: To 1688
titlecomplete: The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History, Vol. 1: To 1688
genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics
ratings_count: 33
publisher: D. C. Heath and Company