The period from the late tenth to the early fourteenth centuries was one of the most dynamic in European history. Latin Christendom found a new confidence which has left its mark upon the landscape in the form of the great cathedrals and castles, while thousands of new towns and villages were founded. The continent was carved up into dynastic kingdoms and principalities from which the European state system would evolve.
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe is actually transcribed from Stephen Hawking's Lectures, the slim volume may not present a single theory unifying gravity with the other fundamental forces, but it does carefully explain the state of late 20th-century physics with the great scientist's characteristic humility and charm.
British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
by Keith Laybourn (Editor)
Laybourn (history, Univ. of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England) has written many books on modern British political history (e.g., Modern Britain Since 1906). This tightly structured dictionary of political leaders begins with Walpole in 1721 and contains 366 entries, covering all prime ministers, chancellors of the exchequer, foreign and home secretaries up to Tony Blair's administration, and the four secretaries of state for the American Colonies. Family information is kept to a minimum; one learns from which seat the leader was elected and his or her political opinions and party and governmental roles but little family detail beyond the names of parents and spouses. Laybourn is mostly objective. The rise and fall of political parties and of British fortunes are reflected through the (generally) men in charge of the empire on which the sun once never set. Modern leaders get a little more ink than their predecessors. Perhaps too dry for public libraries but recommended for academic libraries, where the relatively short entries would best serve undergraduates. Robert Moore, Parexel, Waltham, MA
This volume offers serious Anglophiles 198 entries covering the British leaders who filled "the top four offices of state and the post of secretary of state for the colonies between 1730 and the present," the four top offices being prime minister, chancellor of the exchequer, foreign secretary, and home secretary. Arrangement of entries is alphabetical, either by name or by title depending on how the individual was best known. For example, Benjamin Disraeli is listed under his given name, not as the Earl of Beaconsfield. In cases where official titles have evolved over the centuries, the editors have, for the sake of consistency, used the modern title. Thus, all prime ministers are listed as such, even though the post was once referred to as First Lord of the Treasury.
An Outline Of American State Literature by Elsie Dershem
(Rare Book Collection)
This volume is the first book to treat of the literature of the different states. Nearly all of the states have authors who have written books about their state literature and as the wealth of the material and the number of authors in the state increase, so will the interest in local and state literature tend to increase. No author has been given a residence in a state unless he has been placed there by some state authority. The overlappage of states has been a difficult question. A representative work of each author has been named, insofar as it has been possible.
