Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in English History

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Summary: An excellent Primary Source collection!
Review: This volume, and volume II, make an excellent compainion piece for a servey look at British history. The chapters are arrainged to give a good over view of comtemporary ideas and issues and the excerps of documents are an excellent choise. I have used both volumes in survey courses of British history in college. One extra benefit is a chapter dedicated to the Irish question giving a wide variety of views. Many of the picks Prof. Arnstein has made are excellent choices as they are definatly not mainstream documents, yet are historicaly well known or give interesting views that are often overlooked.