Weeping Britannia
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth.Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and th…
Mehr
CHF 17.40
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-166356-7
- EAN: 9780191663567
- Produktnummer: 19558586
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 80'897 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 black and white halftones
Über den Autor
Thomas Dixon is a historian of emotions, philosophy, science, and religion at Queen Mary, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the History of the Emotions. A regular contributor to radio and television programmes as an academic consultant, interviewee, and presenter, he was the consultant for Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain, a three-part BBC Two series in 2012. The author of several books and numerous articleson the history of ideas, in 2008 he was awarded the Dingle Prize (for the best book on the history of science accessible to a wide readership) for his Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, also published by Oxford University Press.
100 weitere Werke von Thomas Dixon:
Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Ebook (PDF Format)
CHF 15.45
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 3.00
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Ebook (EPUB Format)
CHF 44.50
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Ebook (PDF Format)
CHF 44.50
Bewertungen
Anmelden