A Short History of England

作者: Simon Jenkins

出版社:PublicAffairs

頁數(shù):384

虛構(gòu):非虛構(gòu)

ISBN:9781610391429

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The story of England—exhilarating and empowering and eventful, from the time when Germanic Angles and Saxons first pushed westward across ancient Britain after the Romans withdrew—is a stage set crowded with dazzling tableaux: the Norman conquest, Henry VIII, Charles I, the Industrial Revolution, and war against Hitler.

In A Short History of England, Guardian columnist and former editor of The Times Simon Jenkins shows how the English were, on any showing, a remarkable people, asserting their power and spreading their culture first across the British Isles and then round the world.

Yet close to home, the western and northern boundaries of England reached the line of Offa’s Dyke, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Irish Sea in the Dark Ages, and have hardly moved since. Saxons, Normans, and Tudors could conquer the British Isles, but they could never suppress the Welsh, Scots, or Irish—or their desire for greater self-government—any more than the British Empire at the height of its powers could ever repress the desire for self-government among its colonies.

Running through this story is the drama of money—needed because England’s rulers had to pay for their almost continuous w... (展開)