04612cam a2200889 4500 574012404 TxAuBib 20220507120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101874776 1101874775 B00TWEME40 Amazon f57da105-bbb9-4d86-a9d6-1d89c5599491 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2216396 OverDrive (Product ID) 247723 247723 247723 TxAuBib Tombs, Robert. The English and Their History [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. English. family. Royal. Scotland. Biography. War. royalty. of. Historical. Navigation. British. italian. European History. Middle. classic. World History. Collection. The. Regency. for. England. British Royal Family. french. British History. gifts. Europe. Cartography. medieval. ages. History. Books. Charles. English history. I. Queen of England. gift for history buff. history of england. historical books. buffs. history textbook. british history books. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 112MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 111MB. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> 2016 Notable Book</b><br /> Robert Tombs’s momentous <i>The English and Their History</i> is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.<br /> The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity.<br /> Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. <i>The English and Their History,</i> the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f57da105-bbb9-4d86-a9d6-1d89c5599491&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f57da105-bbb9-4d86-a9d6-1d89c5599491&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f57da105-bbb9-4d86-a9d6-1d89c5599491&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)