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Early Britain

This little book is an attempt to give a brief sketch of Britain under the early English conquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view. For that purpose not much has been said about the doings of kings and statesmen; but attention has been mainly directed towards the le...

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Early Britain

PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH.
CHAPTER II. THE ENGLISH BY THE SHORES OF THE BALTIC.
CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISH SETTLE IN BRITAIN.
CHAPTER IV. THE COLONISATION OF THE COAST.
CHAPTER V. THE ENGLISH IN THEIR NEW HOMES.
CHAPTER VI. THE CONQUEST OF THE INTERIOR.
CHAPTER VII. THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENT.
CHAPTER VIII. HEATHEN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IX. THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH.
CHAPTER X. ROME AND IONA.
CHAPTER XI. CHRISTIAN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XII. THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE KINGDOMS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE RESISTANCE TO THE DANES.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAXONS AT BAY IN WESSEX.
CHAPTER XV. THE RECOVERY OF THE NORTH.
CHAPTER XVI. THE AUGUSTAN AGE AND THE LATER ANGLO-SAXON CIVILISATION.
CHAPTER XVII. THE DECADENCE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE.
CHAPTER XIX. ANGLO-SAXON NOMENCLATURE.
CHAPTER XX. ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE.
CHAPTER XXI. ANGLO-SAXON INFLUENCES IN MODERN BRITAIN.

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