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ENGLISHNESS IDENTIFIED
MANNERS AND CHARACTER 1650-1850 |
| By: |
Paul Langford |
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Paperback |
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£45.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199246408 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199246403 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
6 September, 2001 |
| Pages: |
402 |
| Description: |
Between 1650 and 1850 perceptions of the English were transformed, as a nation of supposed barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers evolved into a world power of political maturity, imperial grandeur, and industrial might. Englishness Identified traces the evolution of the so-called English national character through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and relates it to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of rapid change. |
| Synopsis: |
In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire. These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolution of the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change. |
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8 line drawings |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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