A history of England

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BY CHARLES OMAN,
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE, AND DEPUTY-PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD;
AUTHOR OF WARWICK THE KINGMAKER; ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; A HISTORY OF GREECE; THE ART OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES; THE HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR, ETC.
ELEVENTH EDITION.
LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD. 1904.
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.

When adding one more to the numerous histories of England which have appeared of late years, the author feels that he must justify his conduct. Ten years of teaching in the Honour School of Modern History in the University of Oxford have convinced him that there may still be room for a single-volume history of moderate compass, which neither cramps the earlier annals of our island into a few pages, nor expands the last two centuries into unmanageable bulk. He trusts that his book may be useful to the higher forms of schools, and for the pass examinations of the Universities. The kindly reception which his History of Greece has met both here and in America, leads him to hope that a volume constructed on the same scale and the same lines may be not less fortunate.