The English and their history, Robert Tombs

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ISBN: 9781101873366

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 901-999) and index

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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