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Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850 Book

In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire. These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolution of the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.Read More

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  • 0199246408
  • 9780199246403
  • Paul Langford
  • 6 September 2001
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
  • illustrated edition
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