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A History of Britain - Volume 1

- At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
Af: Simon Schama Engelsk Paperback

A History of Britain - Volume 1

- At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603
Af: Simon Schama Engelsk Paperback
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Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama''s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded ''at the edge of the world'' or right at the heart of it?

Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.

The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.

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Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama''s unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded ''at the edge of the world'' or right at the heart of it?

Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.

The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781847920126
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1847920128
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 5 nov 2009
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 233mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 5 nov 2009
Forfatter(e): Simon Schama
Forfatter(e) Simon Schama


Kategori Storbritannien


ISBN-13 9781847920126


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 28mm


Bredde 154mm


Højde 233mm


Udg. Dato 5 nov 2009


Oplagsdato 5 nov 2009


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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