Lacey Baldwin Smith (1922–2013)
Auteur van This Realm of England 1399-1688
Over de Auteur
Lacey Baldwin Smith is an emeritus professor of history at Northwestern University.
Fotografie: Smith family photo, found at Chicago Tribune website.
Werken van Lacey Baldwin Smith
World History in Outline 5 exemplaren
Tudor prelates and politics, 1536-1558 2 exemplaren
Wars of the Roses 1 exemplaar
A Tudor Tragedy 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1922
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-09-08
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Greensboro, Vermont, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Opleiding
- Princeton University
- Beroepen
- historian
university professor
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World history in outline (Barron's essentials: the… door Lacey Baldwin Smith
2/11/23
This book is none of the things said on the tin: brief, irreverent, or pleasurable. It was incoherent, and fell into the horrible default state of crappy history books: a long Biblical-style list of undifferentiated kings with minor facts about them, vs. illustrating actual long-term trends using the individual examples. By far the worst part was the last 20% which was essentially a summary of the monarchs of England.
The good or interesting part was a summary of politics in the immediate post-WW2 period (Labor, then Conservative; rationing, and then the 70s...), but this book failed to do a good job of that, either.
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The good or interesting part was a summary of politics in the immediate post-WW2 period (Labor, then Conservative; rationing, and then the 70s...), but this book failed to do a good job of that, either.
Skip.… (meer)
Well illustrated summary of world history during the age of Elizabeth I
The title sums it up. I enjoyed this book.
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- 1,436
- Populariteit
- #17,914
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 14
- ISBNs
- 53