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Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1849019398
Size: 58.43 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Book Description: What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples? What is it that makes cynical Europeans and once-dominated Asians look to the British for opinion, literature, social norms and justice? The answers lie within the creation of British institutions, both Commoner and Aristocracy, during the past 2000 years. Following the thought-provoking style of the original This Sceptred Isle, this new volume brings to life the character and frustrations so carefully studied by allies and enemies for twenty-one centuries - from Romans to al-Qaeda. Here Lee makes all the connections with institutions and changing industrial and social characteristics that even show us that Britishness is not exclusively British. At a time when a major section of the British, the English, appear to be less and less sure who they are and who they are meant to be, This Sceptred Isle confirms who it is we really are.

Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher: Singapore Books
ISBN:
Size: 33.50 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description: What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples? What is it that makes cynical Europeans and once-dominated Asians look to the British for opinion, literature, social norms and justice? The answers lie within the creation of British institutions, both Commoner and Aristocracy, during the past 2000 years. Following the thought-provoking style of the original This Sceptred Isle, this new volume brings to life the character and frustrations so carefully studied by allies and enemies for twenty-one centuries - from Romans to al-Qaeda. Here Lee makes all the connections with institutions and changing industrial and social characteristics that even show us that Britishness is not exclusively British. At a time when a major section of the British, the English, appear to...

Author: George Wilson Knight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780841454903
Size: 10.23 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : England in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Ansley Frederick Rash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 52.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Anglo-Israelism
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Author: Christopher Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785292279
Size: 79.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Brent Monahan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312313685
Size: 27.83 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description: While visiting the Sceptred Isle Club, an exclusive London men's club, with his friend Geoffrey Moore, Sheriff John LeBrun of Jekyl Island, Georgia, is on the scene when several prominent men are murdered in the club's gambling room, the door of which is locked from the inside, and becomes caught up in the investigation into a seemingly senseless, impossible murder. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Author: John J. Joughin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719050510
Size: 73.59 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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Book Description: Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. There is, and was, a German Shakespeare (East and West); there is the contested legacy of a colonial Shakespeare in former British possessions; there is the post-national Shakespeare who has become the focus of debates concerning multiculturalism. Shakespeare has often been co-opted to serve nationalism yet it has also served to contest and transform it in complex and contradictory ways: The examples are legions.

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Size: 17.47 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Size: 61.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Audio equipment industry
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Joseph Hatton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 29.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 62.74 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: James A. Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 20.42 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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