Britannia: 100 Documents That Shaped a Nation
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Britannia traces Britain's history - from Roman province to global superpower to post imperial 21st-century European nation state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the eleventh-century Domesday Book, and from the Union flag design of 1605 to Neville Chamberlain's notorious Munich note promising 'peace for our time' in 1938, the documents selected by author Graham Stewart are a richly eclectic mix. In addition to acts, charters and treaties from the political, legal and diplomatic spheres, Britannia also features documents of cultural, social, technological and even sporting interest: thus the first edition of The Times rubs shoulders with the rules of the newly formed Marlyebone Cricket Club; George Stephenson's design for the Rocket with the Catholic Emancipation Act, and Lord Kitchener's 'Your Country Needs YOU' wartime recruitment poster with Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution. Marrying primary source materials with a crisply analytical but engagingly readable text, Britannia will appeal to a broad popular readership as well as to students of history. It belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is curious about the historic roots of the UK's culture, society, language, religious traditions and parliamentary democracy.
Author: Graham Stewart
Format: Hardback, 448 pages, 179mm x 240mm, 1310 g
Published: 2010, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States
Genre: Encyclopedias & General Reference
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Britannia traces Britain's history - from Roman province to global superpower to post imperial 21st-century European nation state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the eleventh-century Domesday Book, and from the Union flag design of 1605 to Neville Chamberlain's notorious Munich note promising 'peace for our time' in 1938, the documents selected by author Graham Stewart are a richly eclectic mix. In addition to acts, charters and treaties from the political, legal and diplomatic spheres, Britannia also features documents of cultural, social, technological and even sporting interest: thus the first edition of The Times rubs shoulders with the rules of the newly formed Marlyebone Cricket Club; George Stephenson's design for the Rocket with the Catholic Emancipation Act, and Lord Kitchener's 'Your Country Needs YOU' wartime recruitment poster with Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution. Marrying primary source materials with a crisply analytical but engagingly readable text, Britannia will appeal to a broad popular readership as well as to students of history. It belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is curious about the historic roots of the UK's culture, society, language, religious traditions and parliamentary democracy.
Britannia: 100 Documents That Shaped a Nation