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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)

Simon Schama
4.07/5 (3232 ratings)
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'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history. At its heart lie questions of compelling importance for Britain's future as well as its past: what makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?





Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives, depicted in Schama's brilliant portrait of the life of the British people.
Format:
Pages:
416 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Talk Miramax Books
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0786866756
ISBN13:
9780786866755
kindle Asin:
1409018245

A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)

Simon Schama
4.07/5 (3232 ratings)
Read Download
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history. At its heart lie questions of compelling importance for Britain's future as well as its past: what makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?





Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives, depicted in Schama's brilliant portrait of the life of the British people.
Format:
Pages:
416 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Talk Miramax Books
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0786866756
ISBN13:
9780786866755
kindle Asin:
1409018245

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