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Paul Readman - Storied Ground, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Storied Ground

Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

Av Paul Readman

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Beskrivning
People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning. Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Englishness extended far beyond the pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages, waving fields of corn and quaint country churches. It was found in diverse locations - urban as well as rural, north as well as south - and it took strikingly diverse forms.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-02-22
  • Mått: 157 x 236 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 710 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 348
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108424738
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Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. He is author of Land and Nation: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land (2008). His other publications include, as co-editor, The Land Question in Britain (2010), Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914 (2014) and Walking Histories, 1800–1914 (2016), as well as many articles and essays. As a keen walker and perpetual tourist, he has a long-standing interest in the diverse ways that human experience shapes, and is shaped by, landscape and place.

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'Paul Readman argues convincingly that other scholars have neglected the importance of the lived environment in shaping cultural nationalism, focusing too heavily on written histories and commemorative events and activities … Readman's monograph is a tour de force, wide ranging and convincing in its central arguments.' Rosemary Michell, American Historical Review

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