The English : a portrait of a people af Jeremy Paxman (Bog)

The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race?

Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman 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 twenty-first century.

“Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair

En oplysende, intelligent og morsom bog om englænderne som folk, om deres opfattelse af sig selv og deres opfattelse af andre folk

Titel: The English : a portrait of a people

Forfatter: Jeremy Paxman

Forlag: Penguin Books

Udgivelsesår: 1999

Sider: 308

Sprog: Engelsk