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  • Von: Robert Tombs
  • Gesprochen von: Stephen Thorne
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  • 3,8 out of 5 stars (12 Bewertungen)

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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 recognisable 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 the 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 audiobook, 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, yet also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.

©2015 Robert Tombs (P)2016 Audible, Ltd

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"A work of supreme intelligence.... No history published this year has been of such resounding importance to contemporary debates. Tombs, who is both fearless and non-partisan, deserves to be rewarded with a life peerage for this book." (Richard Davenport-Hines, Observer)
"Learned, pithy and punchy, with a laudable sense of narrative sweep and a bracing willingness to offer bold judgments, [Tombs's] survey is a tremendous achievement, and deserves to become the standard history for years to come." (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times)
"Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit...[a] vast and delightful book." (Ben Macintyre, The Times)

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  • 03.12.2019

Long book that broadens horizons

I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone because it shows a balanced view of history- and challenges the only negative interpretations of English heritage

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  • 04.05.2022

A Boomer's perspective

Pro: It provides quite a wide overview of England's history and society.

Cons:
- Author often judges certain events or groups by expressing his own opinion without providing facts to back the statement up. To the contrary, the data he mentions will even contradict his own statement made just sentences before. (e.g. post 2017-England being "the safest [...] England of all times" despite the increase of criminality, terrorism, all cultural divides and conflicts, etc.

- Often the author is heavily biased, leaving out key facts necessary to understand certain events or other perspectives (e.g. concerning Christianity, WWI WWII).
Sometimes this reaches ridiculous levels like in presenting the South African Bures just as "essentially racist and patriarchical farmers".

If you are a fan of Tony Blair and find that "nobody could be more English than Rita Ora" this book might be for you... otherwise better look for alternatives.

The narrator is quite good but you can hear him breathing from time to time, which gets annoying.

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