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An account of the Island of Jersey: with appendix of records

An account of the Island of Jersey: with appendix of records

Falle, Philip

Paperback

General LawBritish HistorySelf-Help

ISBN10: 935370460X
ISBN13: 9789353704605
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On the edge of the Channel, Jersey has always been more than a postcard island: a borderland of law, language, and allegiance. Jersey speaks in its records. Philip Falle's An Account of the Island of Jersey draws the island in firm lines, from its parishes and coast to its old privileges and disputes, marrying topography and customs to an island history chronicle that reads with the pace of lived experience. Written in the tradition of British antiquarian classics, it is also a working tool: an antiquarian local history grounded in a historical records collection and supported by an appendix of documents. Among the earliest substantial histories of the island in English, it preserves a voice close to the events and institutions it describes, and helps fix Jersey's place between crown, church, and sea. Falle follows jersey political history where it matters most, in the paper trail of charters and legal records, civic orders, and inherited rights that shaped daily life in Channel Islands Jersey. For researchers, it stands as a genealogy reference book, pointing to names, offices, and lineages; for general readers, it offers a vivid sense of how a small community negotiated the pressures of early modern Britain and the lingering frameworks of the Norman past. Its value for Norman heritage studies and for anyone building an academic history reference shelf has only grown as Jersey's distinct identity attracts renewed attention. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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