The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair.
SKU: 12655
"In this comprehensive, lucidly argued account of the history of thinking about the English national character, one of the leading historians of modern Britain challenges long-held assumptions and familiar stereotypes and offers an entirely new perspective on what it means to think of oneself as being English." Goes back two hundred years and carries us forward to the present. Yale UP. Orig publ at $35. Hb, dj. NEW. $17.00
$17.00