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Автор: Harry Mount Название: How England Made the English ISBN: 0670919144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670919147 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; and why the Midlands became the home of the British curry.
Описание: Oxford is known for publishing the world's most trusted dictionaries. This is the essential German dictionary--from the first name in reference. - All new--revised and updated - More than 100,000 words, phrases, and translations - Includes cultural notes and essential background to understanding life in Germany - Special treatment of key words
Описание: Compact in size, yet comprehensive in coverage, this bilingual dictionary features more than 55,000 entries, all main headwords in blue for quick reference, and a robust vinyl cover.
Название: Dickens on england and the english ISBN: 1911454870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911454878 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8725.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his country, drawing on a very wide range of his fiction. It offers an account of his often complex and contradictory views of the people and the country that provided the sources of his imaginary world.
Dickens is the great painter of English manners - and, for better or worse, the images of his country which so vitally emerge from his books have become indelibly part of the national character.
His books reflect the changing England of his time, so often poised between the softly focused Pickwickian idyll and the hard-edged, brutal contemporary world. The England of the 19th century and the England of the English imagination crowd one another in his pages.
Автор: Robert Tombs Название: The English and their History ISBN: 1846140188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846140181 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 3234.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present dayIf a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative institutions, then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. They 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.
The English have come a long way from those 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.
Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly beginning a new period in their long history. Especially at times of change, history can help us to think about the sort of people we are and wish to be. This book, 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 yet also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.
ROBERT TOMBS is Professor of French History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John's College. His book That Sweet Enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, co-written with his wife Isabelle, was published in 2006.
Автор: Baxendale John Название: Priestley`s England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture ISBN: 0719072875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719072871 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 4222.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Priestley`s England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the radical critique offered by one of its most popular writers, J B Priestley. Its wide-ranging themes include `Englishness`, literary culture and its values, `Americanisation` and mass culture. -- .
Автор: McCrum Robert Название: The Story of English ISBN: 0571210775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571210770 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work charts the tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world. It is an introduction for both student and general reader alike.
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