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Geoffrey Barraclough.
History in a Changing World.
Published Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: A. T. Broome & Son, and the Kemp Hall Bindery, Oxford.
Size: 146x220x23mm.
Page count: viii,246pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is ragged, some stains and scratches; the book itself looks in good order, some mild wear here and there; previous owner’s name inside the front board, but the main text appears to be free of marking. 

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 431g.

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Collects a number of Barraclough's essays and talks, primarily on medieval or twentieth century history.

Contents:
The historian in a changing world;
Continuity of European tradition;
Is there a European civilisation?;
Medium aevum — reflections on mediaeval history & the term "Middle Ages";
Mediaeval kingship;
Frederick Barbarossa & the 12th c.;
The international order & the Middle Ages;
Mediaeval empire — idea & reality;
Fall of Constantinople;
Metropolis & macrocosm — Europe & the wider world, 1492-1939;
Inquest on Europe;
Europe in perspective — new views on European history;
Russia & Europe;
End of European history;
What it is all about.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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