'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history.
Une histoire de Grande-Bretagne Séries
Cette série épique explore le passé riche et complexe des îles britanniques, de l'ère préhistorique au seuil du nouveau millénaire. Le style narratif captivant donne vie à des moments décisifs, des personnalités et des changements sociétaux qui ont façonné la nation. Des premières civilisations à l'ascension et à la chute d'un empire, cet ouvrage offre des perspectives profondes sur l'identité britannique et son impact mondial. C'est un voyage historique fascinant pour quiconque s'intéresse aux forces qui ont forgé une nation.
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A History of Britain. The British Wars 1603-1776
- 544pages
- 20 heures de lecture
The British Wars is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire
Simon Schama’s dramatic, broad-ranging, and immensely readable epic history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this third and final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present.