Magna Carta

Name: Magna Carta
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ISBN: 9780582438262

ISBN-10: 0582438268

ISBN-13: 9780582438262

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ralph Turner

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This new history is the first to tell the story of Magna Carta through the ages'. No other general work traces its continuing importance in England's political consciousness. Many books have examined the circumstances surrounding King John's grant of Magna Carta in 1215. Very few trace the Charter's legacy to subsequent centuries and even fewer look at the fate of the physical document. Turner also underlines its great influence outside the United Kingdom, especially in North America. Today, the Charter enjoys greater prestige in the United States, the land of lawyers, than in Britain. U.S. citizens claim Magna Carta as a source of their liberties, guaranteeing due process of law' and…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: Magna Carta: disentangling history from myth



England under the Angevin kings: Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John



King John's reign



The making and unmaking of Magna Carta, 1215



The first century of Magna Carta



Magna Carta in the later middle ages and the Tudor period



Magna Carta's revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries



Magna Carta in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries



Magna Carta in the New World Works cited in notes


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Index