England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert SquareFourth Estate, 2001 - 274 pagina's This work is a narrative history of England covering 3000 years, which explores the political, religious, environmental and physical influences that have arrived at the myth that is England. Threads which are explored include the myth of the English woman and the identification of class in dialect. Duffy concludes that the history of England's absorbtion of different cultures should lead England to support the European ideal and turn its back on Americanization. |
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... give up Eustace and a party of Frenchmen who had taken over a castle , which some chronicles say was in Dover and others in Swein's territory of Herefordshire . At first Edward was ready to give in but the northern earls gathered an ...
... give up Eustace and a party of Frenchmen who had taken over a castle , which some chronicles say was in Dover and others in Swein's territory of Herefordshire . At first Edward was ready to give in but the northern earls gathered an ...
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... gives few opportunities to those who wish to work there unless they are in the service industries or prepared to take ... give up our own comfort , we continue a process , begun under Victoria , of denuding the countryside of workers , a ...
... gives few opportunities to those who wish to work there unless they are in the service industries or prepared to take ... give up our own comfort , we continue a process , begun under Victoria , of denuding the countryside of workers , a ...
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... give direct commands , preferring to ask ' Could you ... ? ' rather than say ' Do such and such ' . Powell's speech merely described a possible scenario of rivers of blood , but its violence of language was enough . The current ...
... give direct commands , preferring to ask ' Could you ... ? ' rather than say ' Do such and such ' . Powell's speech merely described a possible scenario of rivers of blood , but its violence of language was enough . The current ...
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Englands Darling | 36 |
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England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square Maureen Duffy Fragmentweergave - 2001 |
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