Book Reviews and Notices : The Later Plantagenets: A Survey of English History Between 1307 and 1485. By V.H.H. GREEN. (London: Edward Arnold, Ltd. 1955. Pp. 438. $4.00.)

• Date: 01 December 1956
• Published date: 01 December 1956
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295600900423
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Mukerji will convince those who are predisposed to be convinced, but not
the rest of the world.
The Hindu outlook, which Dr. Mukerji recommends to social scientists
of all nations, holds that &dquo;freed from the bondage of desire, thought can
become free from ideological perversions.&dquo; To the social scientist who
claims to have discovered that desires are an ever-present part of human
nature, the Hindu may reply that he is misled by his own imperfection, and
that his culture has not given him the opportunity of observing a really
pure soul. Here is a crucially important difference of opinion, and it would
seem wise for each side to admit at least the possibility of its being wrong.
Whether our knowledge is or is not forever subject to limitations, we will
hardly settle the matter merely by announcing how it seems to particular
groups.
WILLIAM KENT.
University of Utah.
The Later Plantagenets: A Survey of English History Between 1307 and
1485. By V.H.H. GREEN. (London: Edward Arnold, Ltd. 1955. Pp.
438. $4.00.)
History as a narrative of the past is constantly being rewritten; new
facts are made known as archival materials are investigated; long-known
facts take on a different significance as we view problems from new per-
spectives. So, periodically, the historian presents a revised version of his-
tory. Such Professor Green undertakes to do in his account of England,
1307 A.D. to 1485 A.D. His task has been to incorporate the findings and
theses of the past two or three decades so that &dquo;the undergraduate and ...
the general reader&dquo; may have an accurate, up-to-date account of &dquo;a fas-
cinating and important era.&dquo;
His approach is to give a good, brief introduction to English society of
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the first three chapters, then to
orient materials around the monarchs from Edward II to Richard III -
usually a chapter per monarch - with separate chapters devoted to &dquo;The
French Wars&dquo; and to...