A Commonwealth of the People

by David Rollison

Book Overview

In 1500 fewer than three million people spoke English; today English speakers number at least a billion worldwide. This book asks how and why a small island people became the nucleus of an empire 'on which the sun never set'. David Rollison argues that the 'English explosion' was the outcome of a long social revolution with roots deep in the medieval past. A succession of crises from the Norman Conquest to the English Revolution were causal links...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521139708
• ISBN13: 9780521139700
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"