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Loading... Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850by Paul Langford
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In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire.These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolutionof the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.0942Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Biography And History Europe England And WalesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |