This Sceptred Isle Lee Christopher
This Sceptred Isle Lee Christopher What is Britishness? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples? What allowed one small island…
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This Sceptred Isle Lee Christopher
What is Britishness? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese?
The answers lie within the creation of British institutions, both Commoner and Aristocracy, during the past 2000 years. What is it that makes cynical Europeans and once-dominated Asians look to the British for opinion, literature, social norms and justice? Following the thought-provoking style of the original This Sceptred Isle, this new volume brings to life the character and frustrations so carefully studied by allies and enemies for twenty-one centuries - from Romans to al-Qaeda.
Here Lee makes all the connections with institutions and changing industrial and social characteristics that even show us that Britishness is not