How London Emerged as the West’s First Global Capital
The sweeping title of the book promises much. Its author delivers both a bit more and a bit less.
Derek Hirst
Derek Hirst is William Eliot Smith Professor of History Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught 42 years before his retirement in 2017. Hirst is author of a number of books on British history. For several years he taught an undergraduate class on the 1530s, largely from Thomas Cromwell’s papers in their online print versions.
By Derek Hirst
A Tale of Henry VIII’s Other Thomas
One of the great achievements of this book is to show England being taken down a road not of its formidable ruler’s choosing.