G. K. Chesterton’s Short History of England is anything but a conventional survey — it is a spirited, polemical, and brilliantly written interpretation of English history from the Roman occupation to the early twentieth century, refracted through Chesterton’s Catholic distributist philosophy. Where other historians see steady progress, Chesterton sees loss: the destruction of the medieval commons, the Reformation’s assault on popular religion, the grim disciplines of industrial capitalism.
Infuriating to some and exhilarating to others, the book is never dull. Download the free EPUB for one of the most individual and intellectually provocative short histories of England ever written.