The English National Character by Peter Mandler

The English National Character by Peter Mandler

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Traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own 'national character' over the centuries. This book draws on lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and scholarly books, poems and novels and films, satires and cartoons and caricatures, social science, and public opinion research.

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The English National Character by Peter Mandler

Traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own 'national character' over the centuries. This book draws on lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and scholarly books, poems and novels and films, satires and cartoons and caricatures, social science, and public opinion research.
Peter Mandler is reader in modern history, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He is the author of, among other books, The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, published by Yale University Press.
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ISBN 13 9780300120523
ISBN 10 0300120524
Title The English National Character
Author Peter Mandler
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 2006-10-25
Number of pages 360
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