The English and their history:
The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first full-length a...
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| Summary: | The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day.'As ambitious as it is successful . . . Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, a vast and delightful book' Ben MacIntyre, The Times, Books of the Year'A stupendous achievement ... a story of a people we can't fail to recognize: stoical, brave, drunken, bloody-minded, violent, undeferential, yet paradoxically law-abiding ... I found myself gripped' Daniel Hannan, Spectator'Original and enormously readable, this brilliant, hugely engaging work has a sly wit and insouciance that are of themselves rather English' Sinclair MacKay, Daily Telegraph |
| Item Description: | Updated with a new chapter |
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| adam_text | List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures Preface to the Revised Edition vii xi xii xiii Introduction: Who Do We Think We Are? i Prelude: The Dreamtime 7 PART ONE The Birth of a Nation I This Earth, This Realm c.600-1066 23 2 The Conqueror’s Kingdom 47 Five Centuries after Bede 78 PART TWO The English Unleashed 87 3 A Well Good Land 4 ‘The world is changed and overthrown’ Writing the Middle Ages: Shakespeare and Lesser Historians 117 151 PART THREE The Great Divide, C.1500-C.1700 5 Reformation 161 6 Revolution 204 The Civil War and ‘Whig History’ 2.62. PART FOUR Making a New World, c.1660-c.1815 7 And All was Light 277 8 A Free Country? 301 9 The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Nation 332 10 The First Industrial Nation 367 и Wars of Dreams 381
PART FIVE The English Century 12 Dickensian England, Î.1815-C.1850 420 I? Victorian England 14 Imperial England, 1815-1918 456 Englishness in the English Century 534 584 PART SIX The New Dark Age, 1914-1945 15 The War to End War l6 The Twenty-Year Truce 597 645 I? The Edge of the Abyss, 1939-1945 Memory, History and Myth 687 751 PART SEVEN An Age of Decline? l8 Postwar 762 19 England’s Cultural Revolutions 20 Storm and Stress 783 801 21 Things Can Only Get Better, 1997-2016 829 22 Two Nations? 2016-2023 863 Conclusion: The English and Their History 895 References Eurther Reading 1000 Acknowledgements 1017 Index 1019 916
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List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures Preface to the Revised Edition vii xi xii xiii Introduction: Who Do We Think We Are? i Prelude: The Dreamtime 7 PART ONE The Birth of a Nation I This Earth, This Realm c.600-1066 23 2 The Conqueror’s Kingdom 47 Five Centuries after Bede 78 PART TWO The English Unleashed 87 3 A Well Good Land 4 ‘The world is changed and overthrown’ Writing the Middle Ages: Shakespeare and Lesser Historians 117 151 PART THREE The Great Divide, C.1500-C.1700 5 Reformation 161 6 Revolution 204 The Civil War and ‘Whig History’ 2.62. PART FOUR Making a New World, c.1660-c.1815 7 And All was Light 277 8 A Free Country? 301 9 The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Nation 332 10 The First Industrial Nation 367 и Wars of Dreams 381
PART FIVE The English Century 12 Dickensian England, Î.1815-C.1850 420 I? Victorian England 14 Imperial England, 1815-1918 456 Englishness in the English Century 534 584 PART SIX The New Dark Age, 1914-1945 15 The War to End War l6 The Twenty-Year Truce 597 645 I? The Edge of the Abyss, 1939-1945 Memory, History and Myth 687 751 PART SEVEN An Age of Decline? l8 Postwar 762 19 England’s Cultural Revolutions 20 Storm and Stress 783 801 21 Things Can Only Get Better, 1997-2016 829 22 Two Nations? 2016-2023 863 Conclusion: The English and Their History 895 References Eurther Reading 1000 Acknowledgements 1017 Index 1019 916 |
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