A Short History of Britain
Covering over 2,000 years in under 200 pages, Jeremy Black takes the reader on a breathless tour of British history, providing invaluable context for students of any period. A truly British overview, this book covers all four constituent parts of the UK, as well as migration to and from Britain, and introduces questions of national identity and collective memory. The author begins by considering how the geography of Britain has influenced its development and goes on to examine the formation of its society and political culture. Resisting the Whiggish tradition of triumphalist national histories, Jeremy Black provides a balanced and sensitive…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-8667-4
- EAN: 9781472586674
- Produktnummer: 18433874
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'541 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
Über den Autor
Jeremy Black is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA. His books include Crisis of Empire (2015), Military Strategy: A Global History (2020) and Naval Warfare (2017).
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