England And The English

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670919154

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How England Made the English by Harry Mount Pdf

Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories. Q. Why are English train seats so narrow? A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. For readers of Paxman's The English, Bryson's Notes on a Small Island and Fox's Watching the English, this intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow. Praise for Harry Mount: 'Highly readable, encyclopeadic, marvellous, illuminating. Mount portrays England via dextrous excavations of its geography, geology, history and weather' Independent 'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting companion' Daily Mail 'Charming and nerdily fact-stuffed' Guardian Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and A Lust for Window Sills - A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.

Author : Michael Kenny,Iain McLean,Akash Paun
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0197266460

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Governing England by Michael Kenny,Iain McLean,Akash Paun Pdf

Governing England examines the state of England's governance, identity and relationship with the other nations of the UK. It brings together academic experts on constitutional change, territorial politics, nationalism, political parties, public opinion, and local government both to explain thecurrent place of England within a changing United Kingdom, and to consider how the "English constitution" is likely to develop over the coming years.At a time when questions of territory and identity have grown increasingly politicised, Governing England offers a deeper academic analysis of how England and Englishness are changing. The central questions it addresses are whether, why, and with what consequences there has been a disentangling ofEngland from Britain within the institutions of the UK state, and of Englishness from Britishness at the level of culture and national identity.This volume includes competing interpretations of what has changed in terms of English nationhood.

Author : Richard Body
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025358107

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England for the English by Richard Body Pdf

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Social Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB10701847

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England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Pdf

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101873366

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The English and Their History by Robert Tombs Pdf

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.

Author : John Nowell Linton Myres
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0192822357

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The English Settlements by John Nowell Linton Myres Pdf

The dark ages of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh century are examined in this study, which draws attention to political and social factors linking Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010568467

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England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Pdf

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310662721

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England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Pdf

Author : Alex Niven
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912248636

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New Model Island by Alex Niven Pdf

A study of place, identity, music, politics and regionalism which calls for a radical restructuring of the British Isles. In the early twenty-first century, "Englishness" suddenly became a hot topic. A rash of art exhibitions, pop albums and coffee table books arrived on the scene, all desperate to recover England’s lost national soul. But when we sweep away the patriotic stereotypes, we begin to see that England is a country that does not — and perhaps should not — exist in any essential sense. In this provocative text combining polemic and memoir, Alex Niven argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn apart completely as we look towards a time of radical political reform. Rejecting outdated nationalisms, Niven argues for a renovated model of culture and governance for the islands — a fluid, dynamic version of regionalism preparing the way for a new "dream archipelago".

Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 1859840639

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Anyone But England by Mike Marqusee Pdf

This work is a timely exploration of the bonds which tie English cricket to the English nation as both face apparently inexorable decline.

Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391436

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A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins Pdf

The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar—-from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two world wars. But to understand their full sig­nificance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English histo­ry by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country’s birth, rise to global promi­nence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and LondonTimes former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today’s England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.

Author : Trent Harding,Ashlee Harding
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725532808

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Theodore's British Adventure by Trent Harding,Ashlee Harding Pdf

Are you going to England soon or would you like to learn about the English culture and attractions? This easy to read book with beautiful hand drawn artwork is just right for you. Theodore takes you on a journey all things British.Along the way, you learn about great places to visit including London, Bath, and the Cotswolds. Other attractions include Warner Brothers studios and the Eden project. Your child will love going on this adventure with lovable Theodore the Bear.

Author : Price Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X001689608

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England and the English from an American Point of View by Price Collier Pdf

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : England
ISBN : BSB:BSB10701848

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England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton Pdf

Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521423341

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England's Troubles by Jonathan Scott Pdf

In this path-breaking study, first published in 2000, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive: that experience of political instability which contemporaries called 'our troubles'. The second was creative: its spectacular intellectual consequence in the English revolution. The third was reconstructive: the long restoration voyage toward safe haven from these terrifying storms. Driving the troubles were fears and passions animated by European religious and political developments. The result registered the impact upon fragile institutions of powerful beliefs. One feature of this analysis is its relationship of the history of events to that of ideas. Another is its consideration of these processes across the century as a whole. The most important is its restoration of this extraordinary English experience to its European context.