The English and Their History by Robert Tombs

The English and Their History by Robert Tombs

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist

The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. 
 
Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.

Robert Tombs is a notable specialist of Anglo-French relations and a professor of history at the University of Cambridge. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, which he coauthored with his wife, Isabelle Tombs, is the first comprehensive study of the French-British relationship over the last three centuries.

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ISBN 13	9781101873366
ISBN 10	1101873361
Title	The English and Their History
Author	Robert Tombs
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-11-29
Number of pages	1040
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