A Guide to English Country Histories (History Handbooks) - Softcover

 
9780750915052: A Guide to English Country Histories (History Handbooks)

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A comprehensive historiographical survey offering a qualitative guide to the works of the English county historians. The 48 contributors sketch the development of research and writing on each county's history, providing interpretive analysis of both published and unpublished histories as well as regional and county historical work done by societies. The volume includes all the ancient counties minus Monmouthsire. Cumberland is combined with Westmorland, Leicestershire with Rutland, and London is treated in its own separate discussion. Includes an introduction to county history and an architectural guide. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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