The English and their history, Robert Tombs

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The English and their history, Robert Tombs

Statement of responsibility

Robert Tombs

Instantiates

• The English and their history

Publication

• New York, Vintage Books , 2016

Copyright

• ©2014

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 901-999) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Who do we think we are? -- Prelude : The dreamtime -- The birth of a nation. This earth, this realm, c. 600-1066 ; The Conqueror's kingdom ; Five centuries after Bede -- The English unleashed. A well good land ; "The world is changed and overthrown" ; Writing the Middle Ages : Shakespeare and lesser historians -- The great divide, c. 1500-c. 1700. Reformation ; Revolution ; The civil war and "Whig history" -- Making a new world, c. 1660-c. 1815. And all was light ; A free country? ; The rise and fall of the Atlantic nation ; The first industrial nation ; Wars of dreams -- The English century. Dickensian England, c. 1815-c. 1850 ; Victorian England ; Imperial England, 1815-1918 ; Englishness in the English century -- The new dark age, 1914-1945. The war to end war ; The twenty-year truce ; The edge of the abyss, 1939-1945 ; Memory, history, and myth -- An age of decline? Postwar ; England's cultural revolutions ; Storm and stress ; Things can only get better, 1997-c. 2014 -- The English and their history

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ocn935191901

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

First Vintage Books edition.

Extent

x, 1024 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9781101873366

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Other physical details

illustrations, maps

Record ID

u102408

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(OCoLC)935191901