Heinemann, 2010
Various factors underlie this new history. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles now sees all history as progress; there is also a rise of
nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales; in the wider world there is the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the
advance of multiculturalism. More and more people in the
English speaking world as a whole sense that their collective
landscape now looks profoundly different from that inhabited by their
ancestors even a few decades ago.
In A World By Itself, six historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, this is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past, and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British.
In A World By Itself, six historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, this is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past, and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British.
