The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times by Hawes, James
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times by Hawes, James

The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times

England--begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of...
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The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times by Hawes, James

The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times

$25.25
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times by Hawes, James

The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times

$25.25
Author: James Hawes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
England--begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor--is 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 reinvented--yet 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), America's War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England's 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 life--offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today's headlines.

The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.



Author: James Hawes
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781615198146

About the Author
Hawes, James: - James Hawes studied German at University of Oxford and University College London, then held lectureships in German at the universities of Maynooth, Sheffield, and Swansea. He has published six novels with Jonathan Cape and is also the author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England. He leads the MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. He is Series Story Consultant, on-screen contributor, and writer of the associated book for the major eight-episode BBC TV history of British creativity, These Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us, to be screened in spring 2022.
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