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The English and Their History

英國人和他們的歷史(紐約時報2016榜單）

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英國史學家Robert Tombs震撼人心的英國通史新作，透徹解析英國曆史脈絡

羅伯特圖姆斯（Robert Tombs）

英國學術家，成為法國的歷史學家後，認識到他的同胞英國人已經擁抱了多元主義和移民至少1300年，在《The English and Their History》一書裏他總結英國不應該忽視和放棄這一點，因為這已經成為他們的特徵優勢。

Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His acclaimed book That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present was published in 2006. He is one of the leading scholars of Anglo-French relations.

英格蘭歷史史學專家Robert Tombs最震撼人心的歷史書，為讀者解析英國如何從一個貿易之國的掘起，以及帝國主義時代的衰敗。

英國這個民族最初的存在只是一個概念，在這之前他們沒有一個首領，甚至連居住的地方都沒有名稱，但自從這個概念開始，英國就開始生生不息直到今日。

作者將透過本書，敍述此民族的歷史發展，證明英國足以稱為最古老的國家。

這本書描述了英國人的歷史及意義，作者Robert Tombs描繪出貫穿整個英國曆史的清晰脈絡，包括語言、法律、宗教、土地與海洋、以及與其他民族的關係，而英國人又是如何透過這些聯繫來了解自己的悠遠及複雜的歷史背景。 

In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative institutions, then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. 

They 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 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 beginning a new period in their long history. Especially at times of change, history can help us to think about the sort of people we are and wish to be.

This book, 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 yet also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.

作者：Robert Tombs

裝幀：平裝

語種：英語

ISBN: 0141031654

條形碼: 9780141031651

商品尺寸: 12.9 x 4.5 x 19.8 cm

商品重量: 762 g

ASIN: 0141031654