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This is a comprehensive history of William the Conqueror’s conquest of England and the Norman takeover, the last time a foreign invader successfully subdued England. From the intro: “The principal states of modern Europe have at present attained a high degree of territorial unity, and the habit of living under one same government and in the bosom of one same civilization, seems to have introduced among the population of each state an entire community of manners, language, and patriotism. Yet there is perhaps not one of them which does not still present to the inquirer living traces of the diversity of the races of men which, in the progress of time, have combined to form that population. This variety of races is displayed under different aspects. Here a complete separation of idioms, local traditions, political sentiments, and a sort of instinctive hostility, distinguish from the great national mass the population of particular districts, of limited extent; there a simple difference of idiom, or even of accent, marks, though more faintly, the limit of the settlements formed by peoples of diverse origin, and long separated by deep-seated animosities. The further we go back from the

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Author

Thierry, Augustin

Publisher

Nisyros Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities