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Raphael Samuel Island Stories (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Island Stories : Unravelling Britain
- Publication Name
- Island Stories
- Title
- Island Stories
- Subtitle
- Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II
- Contributor
- Alison Light (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1859841902
- EAN
- 9781859841907
- ISBN
- 9781859841907
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Europe / Great Britain / General
- Release Date
- 01/07/1999
- Release Year
- 1999
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in daily life and their common sense of a people.s destiny. Raphael Samuel reveals the palimpsest of British national histories, offering a searching yet affectionate account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles, cherished by the .four nations. that inhabit the British Isles. Samuel is interested by the fact that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of .Britons. thriving today just as its object has become problematic? Island Stories marvelously conveys the mutability of national conceits. Samuel calls as witness a galaxy of authorities.Bede and Gerald of Barri, Macaulay and Stubbs, Shakespeare and Dickens, Lord Reith and Raymond Williams, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn.each of whom sought to renew the sense of national identity by means of an acute sense of the past. Island Stories is a luminous study of the way nations use their past to lend meaning to the present and future. This sequel to the widely acclaimed Theatres of Memory is as passionate, unexpected and enjoyable as its predecessor.
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1859841902
ISBN-13
9781859841907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
940916
Product Key Features
Book Title
Island Stories : Unravelling Britain
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
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Reviews
"The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning ... an imaginative tour de force."-Terry Eagleton, Guardian "Provocative, original ... a powerful testimony to the unending dialogue between the present and the past that is the essence and excitement of history."-David Cannadine, Observer "A stunning collection ... humane, optimistic, multi-textured, ever-meandering but always sparkling ... One of the finest and-paradoxically-most quintessentially English historians of our time."-Ben Pimlott, Independent on Sunday "A magnificent and irreplaceable collection."-John Gray, New Statesman "A provocative lens into both the remote and the near British past."- Publishers Weekly "Deeply researched, intelligently argued, lovingly presented, thoroughly excitable and immensely stimulating ... [Samuel is] as comfortable with seventeenth-century sectarians as with Victorian nonconformists, as familiar with the townlands of Ireland as the streets of London."-John Gillis, Left History "A rich fund of subversive ideas."-Daniel Johnson, The Times, "The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning ... an imaginative tour de force."--Terry Eagleton, Guardian "Provocative, original ... a powerful testimony to the unending dialogue between the present and the past that is the essence and excitement of history."--David Cannadine, Observer "A stunning collection ... humane, optimistic, multi-textured, ever-meandering but always sparkling ... One of the finest and--paradoxically--most quintessentially English historians of our time."--Ben Pimlott, Independent on Sunday "A magnificent and irreplaceable collection."--John Gray, New Statesman "A provocative lens into both the remote and the near British past."-- Publishers Weekly "Deeply researched, intelligently argued, lovingly presented, thoroughly excitable and immensely stimulating ... [Samuel is] as comfortable with seventeenth-century sectarians as with Victorian nonconformists, as familiar with the townlands of Ireland as the streets of London."--John Gillis, Left History "A rich fund of subversive ideas."--Daniel Johnson, The Times
Copyright Date
1999
Dewey Decimal
305.8/00941
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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