James Hawes: The Shortest History of England

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Beschreibung

England-begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor-is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth.

This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented-yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America's War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England's break from the EU. We discover:

why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons
how the British Empire was undermined from within
why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself
and how populism spawned Brexit and its "new elite."

The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life-offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today's headlines.

The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons
how the British Empire was undermined from within
why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself
and how populism spawned Brexit and its "new elite."

The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life-offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today's headlines.

The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

Über den Autor

James Hawes studied German at University of Oxford and University College London, then held lectureships in German at the universities of Maynooth, Sheffield, and Swansea. He has published six novels with Jonathan Cape and is also the author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England. He leads the MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. He is Series Story Consultant, on-screen contributor, and writer of the associated book for the major eight-episode BBC TV history of British creativity, These Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us, to be screened in spring 2022.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	The Shortest History Series
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781615198146
ISBN-10:	1615198148
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	619814
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hawes, James
Hersteller:	Norton & Company The Experiment
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	More than 150 B&W maps and images
Maße:	196 x 127 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	James Hawes
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.03.2022
Gewicht:	0,272 kg