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The People's Historian: John Richard Green and the Writing of History in Victorian England
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Book cover for 9780313279546
 
from Praeger Pub Text (January 1, 1994)
9780313279546 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $64.00
About: In 1874, John Richard Green, a virtually unknown former clergyman, sold the rights for his school textbook, A Short History of the English People, to Macmillan for 350 pounds sterling, a generous sum for a work expected to sell a few thousand copies.