This book explores ambition's transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding.
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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…
A brief history of life in the Middle Ages
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Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the …
"Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life. Thus we glimpse 11th century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master. The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the…
"Early Modern England, 1485--1714: A Narrative History is a lively, up-to-date survey of the Tudor--Stuart period. The narrative shows how England transformed itself from a feudal and relatively minor European state into a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powe…
"Early Modern England, 1485--1714: A Narrative History is a lively, up-to-date survey of the Tudor--Stuart period. The narrative shows how England transformed itself from a feudal and relatively minor European state into a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powe…