A History of Britain Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776

London: BBC, 2001 0563537477. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First Edition. First Printing. No annotations or inscriptions. Second volume in a three-volume history of Britain's past, published to accompany the television series "A History of Britain" first broadcast on BBC2 in 2000. 544 pages including index and select bibliography.. Black cloth wrapped boards silver lettered at spine, solid sewn binding, tight, clean and unmarked, black endpapers. Lavishly illustrated throughout:- mainly in colour plates. 7.5" x 10" tall. Companion to the major TV series."Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, across Europe, America and India. Most would be wars of faith - waged on wide-ranging grounds of political or religious conviction. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of 'Britannia Incorporated'. The British Wars is a story of revolution and reaction, inspiration and disenchantment, of progress and catastrophe, and Schama's evocative narrative brings it vividly to life. "To understand what Britain has become it is necessary to know what it has been. The second volume in this history takes the story of Britain from the Civil War to the Enlightenment. Each chapter focuses on a major theme." This is a heavy book which will require extra shipping costs. .