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The Shortest History Of England Empire And Division From The Anglo Saxons To Brexit A Retelling For Our Times Shortest History
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Author : James Hawes
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-15
The Shortest History Of England Empire And Division From The Anglo Saxons To Brexit A Retelling For Our Times Shortest History written by James Hawes and has been published by The Experiment, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with History categories.
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. 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 Of England
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Author : JAMES. HAWES
language : en
Publisher: Black Incorporated
Release Date : 2019-09-03
The Shortest History Of England written by JAMES. HAWES and has been published by Black Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with categories.
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion through the Britons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes, via the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-French Empire and the Reformation, through the Civil War, Empire and the wars of the twentieth century, and up to the question-filled present, England emerges in a strange, new light. The world's most successful colonial culture is often seen as a uniquely stable Island Kingdom. A gallop through its story shows that it is, in fact, a place shot through with ancient fault lines, locked into European history and overlaid for the past thousand years with that most English of factors, a class system like nowhere else on Earth. With the Empire gone, Brexit looming and the break-up of the United Kingdom itself a real possibility, there's never been a time like this to understand the real history of England.
A Short History Of England
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Author : Simon Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-11-22
A Short History Of England written by Simon Jenkins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-22 with History categories.
The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.
Englanders And Huns
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Author : James Hawes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-02-13
Englanders And Huns written by James Hawes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with History categories.
A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts. But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy? Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.
A Short History Of England
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-11-16
A Short History Of England written by G. K. Chesterton and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Fiction categories.
I INTRODUCTION II THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN III THE AGE OF LEGENDS IV THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS V ST. EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS VI THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES VII THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS VIII THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND IX NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS X THE WAR OF THE USURPERS XI THE REBELLION OF THE RICH XII SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS XIII THE AGE OF THE PURITANS XIV THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS XV THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS XVI ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS XVII THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN XVIII CONCLUSION
A Short History Of England
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Author : Edward Potts Cheyney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
A Short History Of England written by Edward Potts Cheyney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with England categories.
A Short History Of Parliament
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Author : Clyve Jones
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2009
A Short History Of Parliament written by Clyve Jones and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.
The Shortest History Of England
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Author : James M. Hawes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Shortest History Of England written by James M. Hawes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Great Britain categories.
With Brexit, Boris and new baby royals, there's no better time to discover the true history of England - and how the past throws striking light on the present. The only other countries in Europe so riven by geography and history are Italy and Germany, and neither has the most profound divide of all - the 1,000-year-old gulf that separates the ordinary English from their elites. In The Shortest History of England, James Hawes journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, Empire and world war and discovers an England very different to the standard vision. The stable island fortress, stubbornly independent, the begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, is riven by an ancient fault line that pre-dates even the Romans; its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbours, whether the English like it or not; and, for the past 1,000 years, it has harboured a class system like nowhere else on Earth. There has never been a better time to understand why England is the way it is, and there is no better guide.
Shortest History Of England
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Author : JAMES. HAWES
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Shortest History Of England written by JAMES. HAWES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
The Shortest History Of Germany
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Author : James Hawes
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment
Release Date : 2019-03-19
The Shortest History Of Germany written by James Hawes and has been published by The Experiment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with History categories.
2,000 years of history in one riveting afternoon A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy. “There’s no point studying the past unless it sheds some light on the present,” writes James Hawes in this brilliantly concise history that has already captivated hundreds of thousands of readers. “It is time, now more than ever, for us all to understand the real history of Germany.”