The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit--A Retelling for Our Times Hawes James
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit--A Retelling for Our Times Hawes James How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and…
Specifikacia The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit--A Retelling for Our Times Hawes James
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit--A Retelling for Our Times Hawes James
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth.This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented--yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.England--begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor--is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine.
It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and