Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England. Temptation in the Archives paints a…
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1. Englishness and English national identity -- 2. Empire and English nationalism -- 3. English and French national identity : comparisons and contrasts -- 4. Britain, England, and Europe : cultures in contraflow -- 5. Negotiating English identity : Englishness, Britishness, and…
This book explores ambition's transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding.
Is "ambitious" a compliment' It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."'David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambit…
The English Question is becoming one of the most urgent questions in modern British politics. What has been lacking is a single text which puts into perspective the politics of modern Englishness, providing an explanatory framework which makes sense of its contemporary significa…
Provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a perspective on those debates. This book offers readers with an interpretation of the significant literature on The English Question, and also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural…
Provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a perspective on those debates. This book offers readers with an interpretation of the significant literature on The English Question, and also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural…
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also ena…
