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Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity.Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.
The English and Their History, by Robert Tombs- Amazon Sales Rank: #42522 in Books
- Brand: Knopf
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.90" w x 6.70" l, 3.33 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 1040 pages
Review Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist"Spectacular and massive. . . . It's a book for our times that should also become the standard text for the century to come." —David Frum, The Atlantic“The English and Their History,” by Robert Tombs, is right to combine a fresh retelling of English history with a thoughtful analysis of the changing ways in which the English themselves have interpreted their past. It successfully does both. . . . In this book he bicycles pleasingly through the picturesque valleys and stormy moorlands of England’s long adversarial struggle with itself. . . . Tombs entertainingly describes England’s frequent aggressive adventures into other people’s countries, not least its immediate neighbors.” —Peter Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review“Robert Tombs’s The English and their History is history at its best. He gives a fluent, elegant and abundantly energetic narrative from the Bronze Age to the Scottish Referendum of 2014….The final section of the book, covering the last half-century, is a triumph of precision and candour: I have not read history that is so important and exciting for years.” —Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Litereary Supplement (Books of the Year) “As ambitious as it is successful….Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, this vast and delightful book is exactly the weapon to throw at those who apologise for the past, denigrate the present and fear the future.” —Ben Macintyre, The Times (Books of the Year) “In his massive, engaging and persuasive new book, Robert Tombs speaks up for English history, and sometimes for England itself.” —David Horspool, The Guardian“The English and Their History, by the Professor of French history at Cambridge, Robert Tombs, is a work of supreme intelligence. In this vigorous, subtle and penetrating book, Tombs defies the proprieties of our politically motivated national history curriculum to rethink and revise notions of national identity. Tombs has done nothing less than narrate with rare freshness and confidence 2,000 years of English history....Although he is a historian of the grand sweep, his book is full of arresting details, quirky sidelights, telling quotes and delightful laconic humour…. Robert Tombs’s book is a triumph. In a literal sense it is definitive, for there is never a flash of ambiguity in any sentence….No history published this year has been of such resounding important to contemporary debates. Tombs, who is both fearless and non-partisan, deserves to be rewarded with a life peerage for this book. There can be no steadier, calmer and more informed adviser during the constitutional crises looming in the next two or three years.” —Richard Davenport-Hines, The Observer “Tombs has succeeded magnificently. Learned, pithy and punchy, with a laudable sense of narrative sweep and a bracing willingness to offer bold judgments, his survey is a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard history for years to come….All in all, Tombs’s book is a superb feat of compression and analysis.” —Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times “[A] compelling and intriguing analysis….vast in scope and full to the brim with scholarship that has been painstakingly absorbed only to be disgorged with an exhilarating mixture of conviction and lightness of touch.” —Christopher Silvester, Financial Times“Fascinating….I found it especially strong on English-French relations, and early modern times….Definitely recommended, I quickly became addicted to this book.” —Tyler Cowen, "Marginal Revolution"“Conducting a vast yet readable and sharply focused tour through the ages, and contrasting the English with their Celtic and continental neighbours, the thread is the evolution and paradoxical elusiveness of Englishness....jammed with succulent nuggets.” —Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year) “Robert Tombs’s timely and magisterial The English and their History … [is] a great achievement: you’re in the hands of a learned and considerate guide whose judgments, whether you agree with them or not, you can be sure will be well-founded. A very good read and possibly the most important contribution to the subject since Trevelyan.” —Alan Judd, Spectator (Books of the Year) “The perfect starting point for anyone who wants to grapple with the complexity of the English question….[Tombs] writes beautifully; there isn’t a lazy sentence in this text.”—The Economist“Commanding. . . . a brilliant distillation of a vast tale and arguably the finest one-volume history of any nation and people ever written. . . . Tombs succeeds, all the while clearly stating the bases for his judicious assessments. His lively coverage of social, cultural, and political history is dazzling. . . . It’s hard to identify a source Tombs hasn’t consulted or an apt quotation he’s neglected to slip in. Comprehensive, authoritative, and readable to a fault, this book should be on the shelves of everyone interested in its subject.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred)"Massive yet accessible. . . . wonderfully reasoned and tidily structured...surprisingly approachable. . . . lucid, engaging, and pleasantly nondidactic. .”—Kirkus (Starred)
About the Author ROBERT TOMBS is professor of history at the University of Cambridge and a leading scholar of Anglo-French relations. His most recent book, That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, co-authored with his wife, Isabelle Tombs, is the first large-scale study of the relationship between the French and the British over the last three centuries.
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81 of 82 people found the following review helpful. Best Ever History of England By Edgar Mcgarvey I learned about the book from a reviewer in the Economist who claimed that "there was not a lazy sentence in the book". If there is, I didn't find it in 989 pages of text and notes. I just loved it. I so hated to put it down that I spent an extra hour going through his endnotes and suggestions for further reading.He has a gift for historical narrative. Many historians seem to think their readers know nothing and spend so much time on setting the stage, defining terms, and reciting facts that they bore you to death in the first chapter. At the opposite extreme are historians who think their audience is primarily specialists they debate at conferences and who kill you with minutia and tendentious disputation. Tombs is the truly the "mama bear" who gets it just right. He just seems to have an instinct for knowing when and where to bear down and/or lighten up in his narrative.Also, he doesn't judge the past by the insights and values of the present, a common failing of modern and post-modern historians. He doesn't flaunt his preferences; neither does he hide them. His judgments of things English are nearly always presented in a comparative perspective. He offers what must be dozens of "historical factoids" but without interfering with his narrative and nearly always relating such data to a regional or historical context.I think he did a particularly good job of explicating the factual and moral complexities of the English civil war and the later battles between Whigs and Tories, both in terms of ideas and personalities. If he gets just a tiny bit partisan about English virtues, it might be in his extensive coverage of English opposition (often costly) to the slave trade and chattel slavery. But then again, who could blame him?Read the book. You won't be disappointed.
36 of 36 people found the following review helpful. The English and Their History is a monumental one volume book of over 1,000 pages on the people and history of the sceptred isle By C. M Mills There will always be an England! As a confirmed Anglophile I enjoyed this immense doorstop of a book. Dr. Robert Tombs Professor of History at Cambridge University teaches us about English history from the days of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms to 2014! Tombs writes in a fine narrative style easily comprehended by the average reader who has some basic knowledge of the broad sweep of English history,. The book covers all the reigns of the English monarch as well as such seminal events as:a. The Norman Conquest of 1066.b. The impact of the Protestant Reformation in England.c. The English Civil War of the 1640s.d. The literature of England from Shakespeare to Dickens to modern novelists and playwrights,.e. The development of modern English is chronicledf. Major wars from Napoleonic to World War I and World War II are covered with insight.g. The book contains excellent maps and photographs.h. Tombs shows us how democracy was established in EnglandI. The rise of the British Empire and the impact of Victorian culture is dissected with skill. A short summary is impossible for such an important book. The work will serve well as a college textbook or a great read for those interested inEnglish life. A long but anything but dull book! Rule Britannia!
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful. An easy to read history of England By Peter Bailey It's a major achievement to encompass a comprehensive history of England in one volume. This is an easy to read, user friendly history book written in a flowing style that is both educational and interesting, and avoids the trap of merely focusing on kings and queens.
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