Britain's Contested History: Lessons for Patriots
Autor Professor Bernard Porteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350296381
ISBN-10: 1350296384
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350296384
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Written by a prominent historian of the history of the British Empire, who won an award for his controversial book, Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
Notă biografică
Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Newcastle, UK. He is a regular contributor to LRB, TLS, Literary Review, Guardian, History Today, academic journals and has lectured around the world. Alongside this, he has also appeared on national radio and television shows. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden. His book, Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (2004) won the American Historical Association's Morris D. Forkosch Prize in 2005.
Cuprins
Preface1. Britains2. 1800-19453. Empire4. Politics5. 1946-20166. Culture7. Europeans8. Brexit9. History10. PatriotismsSelect BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
[Contains] many eye-opening factoids . Fascinating.
This is an intelligent, thoughtful and well-written book that will keep the reader engaged as it explores the complexities of the British past and its difficult relationship with contemporary politics and politicians. Porter's argument that dumbed-down history is part and parcel of dumbed-down politics should serve as a salutary warning whenever a politician or media pundit claims that 'History shows us this'. Because History actually shows us many different things, none of which are simple and straight forward.
Amounting to an engrossing and intensely-engaged meditation on the ways in which Britain and its multiple histories have given birth to a tide of highly varied patriotic currents, Bernard Porter's latest book is characteristically smart, keenly probing and briskly readable. Its lesson ? The full meaning of patriotism is not to be understood by simply relighting the lamps of a self-congratulatory national past.
An enjoyable retelling of Britain's 'island story' from a historian of Britain and its sense of itself. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the ways that history, and what it might mean to be British in the early 21st century, has been appropriated by the populist, nationalist right.
This is an intelligent, thoughtful and well-written book that will keep the reader engaged as it explores the complexities of the British past and its difficult relationship with contemporary politics and politicians. Porter's argument that dumbed-down history is part and parcel of dumbed-down politics should serve as a salutary warning whenever a politician or media pundit claims that 'History shows us this'. Because History actually shows us many different things, none of which are simple and straight forward.
Amounting to an engrossing and intensely-engaged meditation on the ways in which Britain and its multiple histories have given birth to a tide of highly varied patriotic currents, Bernard Porter's latest book is characteristically smart, keenly probing and briskly readable. Its lesson ? The full meaning of patriotism is not to be understood by simply relighting the lamps of a self-congratulatory national past.
An enjoyable retelling of Britain's 'island story' from a historian of Britain and its sense of itself. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the ways that history, and what it might mean to be British in the early 21st century, has been appropriated by the populist, nationalist right.