ISBN: 0140267239
Godina izdanja: 1999
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jeremy Paxman - The English: A Portrait of a People
Penguin, 1999
308 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph).

A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race?

Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century.

“Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair

In `The English,` Jeremy Paxman sets out to find out about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. A book on what constitutes Englishness, and what are considered the essential characteristics and values. Using literary sources and interviews, he attempts to define how “Englishness” has changed over this century, and what it is now both in our own and outsider’s views.

Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and much, much more, `The English` brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.

Contents:
Preface. The Land of Lost Contents. Funny Foreigners. The English Empire. `True Born Englishmen` and Other Lies. We Happy Few. The parish of the Senses. Home Alone. There Always Was an England. The Ideal Englishman. Meet the Wife. Old Country, New Clothes. Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography


Nonfiction, History, 0140267239