The English and their History – June 4, 2015
by Robert Tombs (Author)
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.
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