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Englands historia : från Caesar till Brexit

AvJames Hawes

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

207 kr

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Britten James Hawes skildrar Englands historia från Caesar till brexit via erövring, imperium och världskrig, och upptäcker ett land som skiljer sig mycket från standardberättelsens. Denna tjurnackat oberoende stabila öfästning, som givit upphov till parlament och globalt imperium, är delat av en uråldrig skiljelinje som fanns på plats före romarna. Dess öde har alltid varit sammanflätat med grannarnas, och under de senaste tusen åren har landet härbärgerat ett klassamhälle som inte liknar något annat på jorden. Det har aldrig funnits en bättre tid att förstå varför England är som det är och det finns ingen bättre vägvisare än denna.

JAMES HAWES, född 1960, har tidigare skrivit en rad böcker och är aktuell med en dokumentärserie för BBC, "The art that made us". Lind & Co har tidigare utgivit hans bästsäljare Tysklands historia.

"James Hawes syn på brittisk historia är skarp, levande och extremt övertygande."Philip Pullman

"Ingen skriver historia så väl som James Hawes, eller använder det förflutna så skickligt för att förstå nuet. ... Gör dig själv en tjänst, läs den." The Observer

"[Hawes] kanske största förtjänst är att han för berättelsen fram till vår tid, och lyckas ta ett steg bort från samtidens galenskap ..."The New European

"Äntligen en chans att få grepp om Englands hela historia, allt på bara ett fåtal timmar." Mail on Sunday

"Hawes [...] har en skarp blick för likheter mellan då och nu." Spectator

Shortest History of Germany

From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our Times

AvJames Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

209 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy.“There’s no point studying the past unless it sheds some light on the present,” writes James Hawes in this brilliantly concise history that has already captivated hundreds of thousands of readers. “It is time, now more than ever, for us all to understand the real history of Germany.”The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

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Shortest History of Germany

AvJames Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

118 kr

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Dead Long Enough

AvJames Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

95 kr

Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar

Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the day he met Shnade again, he had never noticed the shape of his own skull-to-be; and until the night of that same day, he had never seen a living skull being crunched deliberately, wetly inwards. Perhaps it all happened because Harry had got lost in his work for too long. Or perhaps because Shnade had got lost doing nothing for too long. Or perhaps because all of us, Harry and Shnade included, are lost full stop. She's not really Shnade, of course. Shnade was what we heard, and is what we called her, and is what she will be, to me any rate, for as long as I have. When Shnade swung round, I saw her dress flick along with the movement of her hips and brush Harry's thigh. It was a light, small, flimsy dress of reddish cotton; she wore it over some kind of black, shiny, strappy, swimsuitish thing. You could see this big tattoo of a lizard that ran right from her shoulder to her wrist. And you could tell that when her dress swished across the thigh of Harry's jeans, it felt to him like it was made of chain-mail. And I think, looking back, we all knew, right then, that Harry was fucked.

Englanders and Huns

The Culture-Clash which Led to the First World War

AvJames Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

126 kr

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A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts. But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy? Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.

Critical English Testament, Being an Adaptation of Bengel's Gnomon, With Numerous Notes, Sowing the Precise Results of Modern Criticism and Exegesis. Edited by W.L. Blackley and James Hawes; Volume 2

AvWilliam Lewery Blackley,James Hawes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

540 kr

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Critical English Testament, Being an Adaptation of Bengel's Gnomon, With Numerous Notes, Sowing the Precise Results of Modern Criticism and Exegesis. Edited by W.L. Blackley and James Hawes; Volume 2

AvWilliam Lewery Blackley,James Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

418 kr

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Critical English Testament, Being an Adaptation of Bengel's Gnomon, With Numerous Notes, Sowing the Precise Results of Modern Criticism and Exegesis. Edited by W.L. Blackley and James Hawes

AvWilliam Lewery Blackley,James Hawes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

540 kr

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Critical English Testament, Being an Adaptation of Bengel's Gnomon, With Numerous Notes, Sowing the Precise Results of Modern Criticism and Exegesis. Edited by W.L. Blackley and James Hawes

AvWilliam Lewery Blackley,James Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

418 kr

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Shortest History of England

Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times

AvJames Hawes

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

124 kr

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England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth.This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover:why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxonshow the British Empire was undermined from withinwhy Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itselfand how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.”The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.