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Appeared In History: In 1874, after having been twice rewritten, his Short History of the English People appeared in history. This work unified English history as no other had yet done. "What Macaulay had done for a period of English history," said his fellow historian Mandell Creighton, "Green did for it as a whole." Green's purpose was to show the development of English life by a fusion of constitutional, economic, literary, artistic, and social history—subjects that historians had formerly treated independently. He expanded this very successful work into History of the English People (1877-1880).
In preparing the 12-volume History of England (1856-1870) he examined tens of thousands }f documents in the English Record Office and in :he archives at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Si-nancas, Spain. No such work from original iources had previously appeared in history, and it went hrough many editions. Regarding the Reforma-ion as the greatest event in English history, he nterpreted the Statute Book in the light of con-emporary records, and was thus compelled to a lualified defense of Henry VIII and to reluctant tcknowledgment that Elizabeth I's wisdom was hat of her ministers, Burghley in particular.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in history in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man. |
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