Volume 25, Number 5 · April 6, 1978
The New History of England
By Christopher Hill
Reform and Reformation: England 1509-1558
by G.R. Elton
Harvard University Press, 423 pp., $15.00
Stability and Strife: England 1714-1760
by W.A. Speck
Harvard University Press, 311 pp., $15.00
Of series of histories of England there appears to be no end. We have the Oxford History of England, the Penguin History of England, the Fontana History of England, Nelson's and Longman's Histories—and I am sure many more. But publishers seem to think the market inexhaustible. The appearance of the first two volumes of a new series, Harvard's The New History of England, gives occasion for considering the genre, and asking what objectives the new series has and how they differ from those of its predecessors.
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