The English and their History
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9781101874776
Description: From the Introduction....

Four memory themes are given particular attention [...] Their connections, spanning nearly all of our history, make up an arc of rise and fall: the long and contradictory aftermath of the Norman Conquest; the interpretation of the Civil War era and its ramification into a “Whig history” of progress; the history and conflicting memory of empire; and, most recently, the sense of England and Britain as nations in decline. My intention is to show how these ideas originated, what purposes they have served, and how they appear in the light of modern research. The book is, therefore, partly shaped by the stories and images that make up our collective memory. But I have also been concerned with things we have collectively forgotten and which I think we ought to remember. If this seems contradictory, I hope nevertheless it constitutes a coherent story.
Table of contents: label: Other Titles; label: Copyright; label: Contents; label: List of Illustrations; label: List of Maps; label: List of Figures; label: Introduction
title: Who Do We Think We Are?; label: Prelude
title: The Dreamtime; label: Part One
title: The Birth of a Nation; label: 1
title: This Earth, This Realm c.600–1066; label: 2
title: The Conqueror's Kingdom; title: Five Centuries After Bede; label: Part Two
title: The English Unleashed; label: 3
title: A Well Good Land; label: 4
title: "The world is changed and overthrown"; title: Writing the Middle Ages: Shakespeare and Lesser Historians; label: Part Three
title: The Great Divide, c.1500–c.1700; label: 5
title: Reformation; label: 6
title: Revolution; title: The Civil War and "Whig History"; label: Part Four
title: Making a New World, c.1660–c.1815; label: 7
title: And All Was Light; label: 8
title: A Free Country?; label: 9
title: The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Nation; label: 10
title: The First Industrial Nation; label: 11
title: Wars of Dreams; label: Part Five
title: The English Century; label: 12
title: Dickensian England, c.1815–c.1850; label: 13
title: Victorian England; label: 14
title: Imperial England, 1815–1918; title: Englishness in the English Century; label: Part Six
title: The New Dark Age, 1914–1945; label: 15
title: The War to End War16: The Twenty-Year Truce; label: 17
title: The Edge of the Abyss, 1939–45; title: Memory, History and Myth; label: Part Seven
title: An Age of Decline?; label: 18
title: Postwar; label: 19
title: England's Cultural Revolutions; label: 20
title: Storm and Stress; label: 21
title: Things Can Only Get Better, 1997–c.2014; label: Conclusion
title: The English and Their History; label: Notes; label: Further Reading; label: Acknowledgements; label: Index; label: Illustrations