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Buy this book on-line PAXMAN**, JEREMY: : THE ENGLISH: A PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1998. ISBN 0718142632.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,author's handwritten blue ink signature without dedication,to title page and price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,clean, cream+colour cartoon illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly aged/dust-soiled with minimal marking; fore- edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,ix-xpp+1-308pp [paginated] includes author's preface,11 chapters,acknowledgements,notes,a bibligraphy and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list and dedication.
Not so long ago,writes Jeremy Paxman, everybody knew who the English were.They were 'polite,unexcitable,reserved,and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life'. As the dominant culture in a country which dominated an Empire which dominated the world,they had had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were.But something has happened.A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland,while everyone tries to forge a new relationship with Europe.The English are being forced to ask what it is that makes them who they are.The Bulldog Breed ('Fearless and philistine, safe in taxis and invaluable in shipwrecks') has no place any longer.
Witty,surprising,affectionate and incisive,'The English' traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that,for all their characteristic gloom about themselves,the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the 21stC.
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