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Series
Very short introductions ; 321
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange charter and how did it gain such legendary status? Historian Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King john reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a...
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