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The English and their History

Autor Robert Tombs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2015
'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook,Sunday Times, Books of the Year

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

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.

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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