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A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles
[Buy it!] | Jonathan Clark | USD 14.95
(Fri Jun 7 16:38:06 2024) | Biblio | The Anthropologists Closet | Pimlico, Date: 2011. Paperback. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index, maps, and B&W photos. 768 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. Nor has the world stood still: the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the advance of multiculturalism have led more and more people in the English speaking world as a whole to sense that their collective landscape now looks profoundly different from that inhabited by their ancestors even a few decades ago. In A World By Itself, six distinguished historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, this is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past, and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British. . 2011. Pimlico ISBN 0712664963 9780712664967 [US] |
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Flags of Our Fathers
[Buy it!] | James Bradley | USD 8.95
(Fri Jun 7 16:37:48 2024) | Biblio | M. W. Riggs Bookseller | Bantam, Date: 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. What happened to the Marines that were the flag raisers on Iwo Jima? 376 pages, text clean and tight. B/W photos. First edition full number line 1-10. 2000. Bantam ISBN 0553111337 9780553111330 [US] |
