Description

Englandbegetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsoris not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth.

This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinventedyet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), Americas War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and Englands break from the EU. We discover:

why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons

how the British Empire was undermined from within

why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself

and how populism spawned Brexit and its new elite.

The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient lifeoffering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind todays headlines.

Author: James Hawes
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 03/15/2022
Series: Shortest History
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781615198146
Language: English