The English National Character — The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair

Peter Mandler

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Yale University Press, United States, 2006

0300120524 / 9780300120523

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What makes the English so English? Is there such a thing as an English national character? What kind of people are the English? What characteristic traits and behavior (if any) distinguish them from other people? This highly original and wide-ranging book traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas among the English about their own national character over the past two centuries. Two hundred years ago, the very idea of a national character was novel and not very respectable. Today, it is again difficult for the many who think of themselves as unique individuals to imagine a national character that binds the English together in a national unit. But in between, as Britain became a democracy, national character became part of the national common sense, reflected in depictions of "John Bull" and his twentieth-century successor, the "Little Man," and in a set of stereotypes about English traits, follies, and foibles. Not at all shy to talk about themselves, the English have produced a vast outpouring of material on what it means to be Englishmaterial on which this book draws: lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and scholarly books, poems and novels and films, satires and cartoons and caricatures, as well as up-to-the-minute social science and public opinion research. In this comprehensive and lucidly argued book, a leading historian of modern Britain challenges long-held assumptions and familiar stereotypes and proposes an entirely new perspective on what it means to think of oneself as being English. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Titre
The English National Character — The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair
Auteur
Peter Mandler
Éditeur
Yale University Press, United States
Année de publication
2006
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0300120524
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780300120523
Poids de l'article
721 grammes
Dimensions
3962.0 x 5944.0

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