A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles (Pimlico),Jona

Vintage

A World by ItselfA History of the British Isles\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Clark\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pimlico\nISBN-13: 9780712664967, 978-0712664967\nSynopsis\nScholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. \n\nNor has the world stood still: the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the advance of multiculturalism have led more and more people in the English speaking world as a whole to sense that their collective landscape now looks profoundly different from that inhabited by their ancestors even a few decades ago.\n\nIn A World By Itself, six distinguished historians offer the most definitive and compelling histor.