Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City's Central Park. Within twenty-four hours of his surgery, he dies. A thirty-six-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee. And within twenty-four hours, she has died.
This superb volume tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Edited by esteemed historian Kenneth O. Morgan, this informative volume illuminates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the British Isles. Ten leading historians--including Peter Salway, John Morrill, and Morgan himself--provide a penetrating and dramatic narrative, offering the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the general reader in a highly engaging form. A vivid, sometimes surprising picture emerges of continuous turmoil and change in every period of Britain's history.
Bicycles and baseball meet the Knights of the Round Table in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In Mark Twain’s brilliant satire on the Victorian sentimental obsession with All Things Medieval, Hank Morgan, a practical Connecticut Yankee, travels in time to Camelot—thanks to a blow to his head—and turns 6th-century England into a parody of 19th-century industrial America. As “Sir Boss,” Morgan introduces newspapers, electricity, and, in the end, modern warfare.
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth.
