History of the English Speaking Peoples: Volume 4: The Great Democracies. by Winston S. Churchill

History of the English Speaking Peoples: Volume 4: The Great Democracies. by Winston S. Churchill

Publisher: Cassell & Co, London, 1958. First edition. Very good hardback with jacket, some bumping and rubbing, minor marks, no inscriptions pages tanned. Jacket is chipped at edges with some creasing, rubbing, marks & foxing, small loss to top of spine. 322 pages with illustrations.

The Great Democracies is the fourth and final volume of Churchill's history. Here, Churchill reaches the modern era. For Britain, this was the high Victorian era of Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, an age of free trade and imperialism as the British spread to Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile the fledgling republic in America endured the great crisis of the Civil War to take its first steps on the road to becoming the world superpower that endures to this day.