Lacey Baldwin Smith (1922–2013)
Auteur de This Realm of England 1399-1688
A propos de l'auteur
Lacey Baldwin Smith is an emeritus professor of history at Northwestern University.
Crédit image: Smith family photo, found at Chicago Tribune website.
Œuvres de Lacey Baldwin Smith
Essentials of World History (Barron's Essentials ; the Efficient Study Guides) (1980) 44 exemplaires
World History in Outline 5 exemplaires
Tudor prelates and politics, 1536-1558 2 exemplaires
Wars of the Roses 1 exemplaire
A Tudor Tragedy 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present (1976) — Directeur de publication — 294 exemplaires
Action and conviction in early modern Europe : essays in memory of E. H. Harbison (1969) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1922
- Date de décès
- 2013-09-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Greensboro, Vermont, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Princeton University
- Professions
- historian
university professor
Membres
Critiques
World history in outline (Barron's essentials: the… par 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.
Skip.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
Well illustrated summary of world history during the age of Elizabeth I
The title sums it up. I enjoyed this book.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 1,436
- Popularité
- #17,914
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 53