Englishness Identified : Manners and Character 1650-1850 PDF
by Paul Langford
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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 constitutedEnglishness 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 toEnglish ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:20/04/2000
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
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- ISBN:9780191588587