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Englishness Identified ' Manners and Character 1650-1850 '
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Veröffentlichung: |
September 2001
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Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9780199246403 |
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9780199246403 |
Verlag: |
OUP Oxford |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 234 mm / B 156 mm / D 22 mm |
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611 gr |
Seiten: |
404 |
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Paperback |
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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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