An Autobiography and Other Essays

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A Shortened History of England

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Tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Vikings, the Norman conquest, the first Elizabethan age and foundation of the Indian Empire to World War I and the setting up of the League of Nations.

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Garibaldi and the Making of Italy (1911)

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To those who have read Garibaldi’s Defence of the Roman Republic, or Garibaldi and the Thousand, not to mention several other volumes, the name of G. M. Trevelyan on the back of a book is lure enough to make them open it and read, especially if the book opens with an essay on History. Trevelyan, ( 1876 – 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He was once called "probably the most widely read historian in the world; perhaps in the history of the world." Garibaldi is a remarkable example of an brave and interesting leader who yet accomplishes seriously important results. George Washington and Frederick the Great were builders of nations, as he was; but both were incurably prosaic. The Italian, for all his powerful appeal to the imaginations of men, was in his way one of the world's greatest and most gifted generals. His tactics at the battle of the Volturno form one of the most instructive of lessons in military strategy. It is true that his art had its limitations, that he never showed remarkable abilities except in a certain irregular style of warfare with a small force under his command. He is one of those one-sided geniuses whom God seems to send at a special moment to do a special work which no one else could do. The present volume, is based upon personal knowledge of the ground, upon first-hand study of documents, and upon conversations with the dwindling band of surviving Garibaldians. Trevelyan, however, does not write for specialists alone, but also for the general public, which, fifty years after these events, has rather a hazy idea of ' the making of Italy'. For that large class of reader the book may be warmly recommended; for, although its author makes no concealment of his strongly liberal sentiments, he can see the faults of the Garibaldians and admit the bravery of those adherents of a lost cause who rallied round their king at Gaeta. The book covers the period extending from the capture of Palermo, in June 1860, to the return of the Liberator to his island farm on Caprera, in November of the same year, after the capture of Gaeta and the almost unanimous acceptance of Victor Emmanuel's government through a plebiscite had made United Italy a certainty. Garibaldi's work during the six months in question was the arousing of Southern Italy and the preparation of Victor Emmanuel's conquest of the Kingdom of Naples. And he was able to smooth the way for this glorious event, not so much by any actual conquest of his own, not so much even by any preparation of men's minds, as by the fear his successes aroused in the breast of Cavour. The author is fond of qualifying Garibaldi as a "poet," and of enlarging on the pleasant touches that give his delightful personality its relief. Thus, Colonel Bosco, sent from the mainland to Sicily to retake Palermo, had boasted that he would enter that city on the horse of Medici, the Garibaldian commander. When Bosco was defeated and captured, Garibaldi decided that poetic justice demanded Medici's entrance into Messina on Bosco's horse; and the pageant went off as he had planned it, with the unhorsed boaster walking at the tail of the column, muttering invectives and pulling his formidable moustaches. Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, "reeking with bias", he remarked in his essay "Bias in History", "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared."

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Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic, 1848-9 (Classic Reprint)

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Fourteen years ago, when I began to study the life of Garibaldi, and nine years ago, when I published the last of the three volumes of this series, I certainly did not expect that I was going to serve for more than three years with the Italian army, becoming intimate in the field with the sons and grandsons of men recorded in these pages, in the final war of the Risorgimento, waged, during its first year, against that very Kaiser Franz Josef whose soldiers hunted A nita and Garibaldi in 1849. Before the war history seemed to most men a. thing outside the main current of life ;the past was like a turbulent but distant ocean, on which we looked out through magic casements from the agreeable bow-window of the present. To-day that flood has broken banks ;we are ourselves tossed on the living stream of history. We have been at war with Metternich and Bismarck. We have fought for the principles of 1688 and 1789. We have settled the undecided issue of 1848. Cavour and Garibaldi gave us Italy for an ally, while Washington and Lincoln gave us A merica. The tombs were uncovered ;the dead came to war. Each nation proved to be that which its forefathers had made it. Because of the strange, romantic history recorded in these volumes, Italy in our day fought on the side of freedom. But for that history she would sti Uhave been a province of germanised A ustria. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

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Clio, a Muse, and Other Essays Literary and Pedestrian, Second Impression

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G. M. Trevelyan

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Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic

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The evolution of British historiography: from Bacon to Namier

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G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (Penguin popular classics)

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George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) is a name scarcely familiar in most twentieth-century households. Yet during the first half of this century he was the most famous, honored, influential, and widely read historian of his generation. In this compelling volume David Cannadine preserves the memory of this powerful figure in a thoroughly researched biography that draws from a wealth of Trevelyan's own writings and the recollections of those who knew him.

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Garibaldi and the thousand

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The English revolution, 1688-1689 (The home university library of modern knowledge)

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Records the events surrounding the expulsion of James II from the throne of England.

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British History in the Nineteenth Century 1782-1901 (Classic Reprint)

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The object of this book is to enable the student or general reader to obtain, in the compass of one volume, a picture of change and development during the hundred and twenty years when things certainly, and probably men and women with them, were undergoing a more rapid change of character than in any previous epoch of our annals. I have tried to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process. For such a purpose, it would be a mistake to confuse the narrative with too much detail, but I have put into the story the main events which directed the course of the current, or were regarded as specially symbolic of each passing age. I cannot hold the epicurean doctrine, sometimes favoured nowadays, that because history increasingly deals with generalisation it is safe for the student to neglect dates, which are the bones of historical anatomy. Still less is it safe, in pursuit of generalised truth, to overlook the personality and influence of great men, who are often in large measure the cause of some tendency which only they rendered inevitable. Political writers, social philosophers and founders of movements must take their place beside warriors and statesmen in any account of social and political changes in modern times. But religion, literature and science are only mentioned here in connection with social or political developments of which they were in some degree the cause or the symbol. I have made no attempt to appreciate their real significance in a century of British history famous for all three of these supreme efforts of the human spirit. I have called the book British History, because, though it cannot claim to be aH istory of theE mpire, it is more (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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