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The English and Their History Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 27, 2015

by Robert Tombs (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 1040 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf; First Edition U.S. edition (October 27, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1101874767
  • ISBN-13: 978-1101874769
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 1.9 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsBest Ever History of England
By Edgar Mcgarvey on February 17, 2015
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I learned about the book from a reviewer in the Economist who claimed that "there was not a lazy sentence in the book". If there is, I didn't find it in 989 pages of text and notes. I just loved it. I so hated to put it down that I spent an extra hour going through his endnotes and suggestions for further reading.

He has a gift for historical narrative. Many historians seem to think their readers know nothing and spend so much time on setting the stage, defining terms, and reciting facts that they bore you to death in the first chapter. At the opposite extreme are historians who think their audience is primarily specialists they debate at conferences and who kill you with minutia and tendentious disputation. Tombs is the truly the "mama bear" who gets it just right. He just seems to have an instinct for knowing when and where to bear down and/or lighten up in his narrative.

Also, he doesn't judge the past by the insights and values of the present, a common failing of modern and post-modern historians. He doesn't flaunt his preferences; neither does he hide them. His judgments of things English are nearly always presented in a comparative perspective. He offers what must be dozens of "historical factoids" but without interfering with his narrative and nearly always relating such data to a regional or historical context.

I think he did a particularly good job of explicating the factual and moral complexities of the English civil war and the later battles between Whigs and Tories, both in terms of ideas and personalities. If he gets just a tiny bit partisan about English virtues, it might be in his extensive coverage of English opposition (often costly) to the slave trade and chattel slavery. But then again, who could blame him?

Read the book. You won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe English and Their History is a monumental one volume book of over 1,000 pages on the people and history of the sceptred isle
By C. M Mills on November 9, 2015
Format: Hardcover
There will always be an England! As a confirmed Anglophile I enjoyed this immense doorstop of a book. Dr. Robert Tombs Professor of History at Cambridge University teaches us about English history from the days of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms to 2014! Tombs writes in a fine narrative style easily comprehended by the average reader who has some basic knowledge of the broad sweep of English history,. The book covers all the reigns of the English monarch as well as such seminal events as:
a. The Norman Conquest of 1066.
b. The impact of the Protestant Reformation in England.
c. The English Civil War of the 1640s.
d. The literature of England from Shakespeare to Dickens to modern novelists and playwrights,.
e. The development of modern English is chronicled
f. Major wars from Napoleonic to World War I and World War II are covered with insight.
g. The book contains excellent maps and photographs.
h. Tombs shows us how democracy was established in England
I. The rise of the British Empire and the impact of Victorian culture is dissected with skill.
A short summary is impossible for such an important book. The work will serve well as a college textbook or a great read for those interested in
English life. A long but anything but dull book! Rule Britannia!
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn easy to read history of England
By Peter Bailey on March 8, 2015
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It's a major achievement to encompass a comprehensive history of England in one volume. This is an easy to read, user friendly history book written in a flowing style that is both educational and interesting, and avoids the trap of merely focusing on kings and queens.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis Sceptred Isle
By John D. Cofield TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 9, 2016
Format: Hardcover
Robert Tombs makes it clear early on in this engaging history that "England" is not synonymous with "Great Britain" or the "United Kingdom," although common usage over the last few centuries has conflated the terms. Here is a 900 page book with 100 more pages of meticulous notes and suggestions for further reading that is engaging from start to finish.

England is a special and very lucky place. With a strong claim to be the oldest nation-state in continuous existence, the roots of the English are to be found in the earliest days of human migrations into what became Europe. Successive movements of peoples known to history, though not necessarily to themselves, as Celts, Picts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Norse settled on the island. Eventually, after their Roman conquerors withdrew, they became a unified kingdom which held together in the face of invasion and conflict. Benefiting from a good climate and isolated by the sea, the English gradually gained,lost, and sometimes regained power over their entire island as well as neighboring ones.Ruled by a succession of kings but always maintaining a measure of self-government, the English prospered through the Middle Ages and Renaissance and gained a decisive advantage in the 1700s by becoming the first Europeans to industrialize. This allowed England to become the center of the world's largest empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries, fight and win two world wars, and adjust to changing realities time and again.

Robert Tombs has a good eye for a pertinent anecdote and can produce a fine character sketch within just a few sentences.Read more ›
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