The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England

by Anthony Brundage

In 1874, John Richard Green, a virtually unknown former clergyman, sold the rights for his school textbook, A Short History of the English People, to Macmillan for 350 pounds sterling, a generous sum for a work expected to sell a few thousand copies. To everyone's astonishment, the work sold 32,000 copies in its first year, and a half million copies thereafter. This publishing phenomenon was also a breakthrough in historiography, for unlike...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313279543
• ISBN13: 9780313279546
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"