The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England

by Anthony Brundage

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In 1874, John Richard Green, a virtually unknown former clergyman, sold the rights for his school textbook, A Short History of the English People, to Macmillan for 350 pounds sterling, a generous sum for a work expected to sell a few thousand copies. To everyone's astonishment, the work sold 32,000 copies in its first year, and a half million copies thereafter. This publishing phenomenon was also a breakthrough in historiography, for unlike...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0313279543

ISBN13:9780313279546

Release Date:November 1993

Publisher:Praeger

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History England Ethnic & National Ethnic Studies Europe History Ireland Irish Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Textbooks

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