The English and their History
Autor Robert Tombsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2015
InThe 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
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141031651
ISBN-10: 0141031654
Pagini: 1024
Ilustrații: 32pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141031654
Pagini: 1024
Ilustrații: 32pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert
Tombsis
Emeritus
Professor
of
French
History
at
Cambridge,
and
a
Fellow
of
St
John's
College.
Most
of
his
writing
and
teaching
has
been
on
French
and
European
history
and
on
Franco-British
relations,
for
which
he
was
awarded
the
Palmes
Académiques
by
the
French
government.
Since
his
foray
into
English
history,
with
the
publication
ofThe
English
and
Their
Historyin
2014,
he
has
become
a
frequent
commentator
on
contemporary
issues,
and
is
co-editor
of
the
pro-Brexit
academic
websiteBriefings
for
Britain.
Recenzii
A
work
of
supreme
intelligence
...
No
history
published
this
year
has
been
of
such
resounding
importance
to
contemporary
debates.
Tombs,
who
is
both
fearless
and
non-partisan,
deserves
to
be
rewarded
with
a
life
peerage
for
this
book
Learned, pithy and punchy, with a laudable sense of narrative sweep and a bracing willingness to offer bold judgments, [Tombs's] survey is a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard history for years to come
Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit ... [a] vast and delightful book
Learned, pithy and punchy, with a laudable sense of narrative sweep and a bracing willingness to offer bold judgments, [Tombs's] survey is a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard history for years to come
Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit ... [a] vast and delightful book