ABSTRACT
General histories of Britain have appeared, but they all leave a good deal to be desired. Feiling’s book, though already some-what out of date and not exactly a work of art, at least puts together a usable picture and account;79 the two volumes in the Michigan ‘History of the World’ need to be treated with much care.80 Cantor’s remarkable mixture of straight, some-what old-fashioned, history, and subtle and rather modern historiography contains some new insights.81 Covering only half the period, Webb does better with a lively, beautifully written treatment of some 200 years which gains greatly from the author’s relative distance from conventional accounts.82
