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Our Islands' Story
A Better Story About Britain: ‘Teaches children it’s OK to be proud of British history’ The Telegraph
Inbunden, 2026
232 kr
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In recent years it has become fashionable to tell a certain kind of story about Britain. At its least offensive, this story emphasises the worst aspects of Britain’s past and neglects the best. At its most damaging, it denies, demeans or distorts the very fabric of our collective inheritance.This …
English and their History
Updated with two new chapters
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 2023
224 kr
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The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first full-length account to …
This Sovereign Isle
Britain In and Out of Europe
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 2022
136 kr
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THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has …
Nationhood and Nationalism in France
From Boulangism to the Great War 1889-1918
Av Robert Tombs
Inbunden, 1991
2571 kr
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Leading international historians examine the impact of nationhood and nationalism on French life. World-renowned contributors (many publishing for the first time in English), include Eugene Weber, Zeev Sternill, Pierre Sorlin and Jean-Claude Allain.
English and their History
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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The acclaimed account of the English people, now updated with two new chapters'Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn The English and their History, the first full-length account to …
This Sovereign Isle
Britain In and Out of Europe
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2021
108 kr
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THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has …
This Sovereign Isle
Britain In and Out of Europe
Av Robert Tombs
Ljudbok, 2021
115 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been …
Cross Channel Currents
100 Years of the Entente Cordiale
Av Douglas Johnson, Richard Mayne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2497 kr
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Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in a …
The War Against Paris, 1871
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 1981
435 kr
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The Paris Commune of 1871 is one of the great romantic failures in revolutionary history. Yet very little is known about its enemies, and especially the army, which first fraternized with the revolutionaries and then, two months later, crushed them with the utmost violence. This book, based on …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 1999
839 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
France 1814 - 1914
Av Robert Tombs
Häftad, 1996
844 kr
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Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when she was forged into the modern nation state. Ingeniously structured, the book begins with a study of national obsessions and attitudes, proceeds with an investigation of power; who had it and how, who didn't and why, and what was …
Cross Channel Currents
100 Years of the Entente Cordiale
Av Robert Tombs, Richard Mayne m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
850 kr
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Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance. Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in …
Cross Channel Currents
100 Years of the Entente Cordiale
Av Robert Tombs, Richard Mayne m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
838 kr
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Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance. Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in …
Nationhood and Nationalism in France
From Boulangism to the Great War 1889-1918
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2003
838 kr
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Leading international historians examine the impact of nationhood and nationalism on French life. World-renowned contributors (many publishing for the first time in English), include Eugene Weber, Zeev Sternill, Pierre Sorlin and Jean-Claude Allain.
Nationhood and Nationalism in France
From Boulangism to the Great War 1889-1918
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2003
856 kr
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Leading international historians examine the impact of nationhood and nationalism on French life. World-renowned contributors (many publishing for the first time in English), include Eugene Weber, Zeev Sternill, Pierre Sorlin and Jean-Claude Allain.
France 1814 - 1914
Av Robert Tombs
Inbunden, 2016
2564 kr
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Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
Inbunden, 2016
2564 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
France 1814 - 1914
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2014
892 kr
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Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution …
France 1814 - 1914
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2014
886 kr
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Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2014
977 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
Paris Commune 1871
Av Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2014
977 kr
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The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took …
Britain and France in Two World Wars
Truth, Myth and Memory
E-bok, 2013
526 kr
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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in …
Britain and France in Two World Wars
Truth, Myth and Memory
Häftad, 2013
483 kr
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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in …
Britain and France in Two World Wars
Truth, Myth and Memory
E-bok, 2013
518 kr
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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in …
Britain and France in Two World Wars
Truth, Myth and Memory
Inbunden, 2013
2026 kr
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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in …
That Sweet Enemy
The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
Av Isabelle Tombs, Robert Tombs
E-bok, 2010
200 kr
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From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection. In the nearly two centuries since the final defeat of Napoleon, …
Our Islands' Story
E-bok, 2026
205 kr
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In recent years it has become fashionable to tell a certain kind of story about Britain. At its least offensive, this story emphasises the worst aspects of Britain's past and neglects the best. At its most damaging, it denies, demeans or distorts the very fabric of our collective inheritance. This …
That Sweet Enemy
The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
Av Isabelle Tombs, Robert Tombs
Häftad, 2007
280 kr
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From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection. In the nearly two centuries since the final defeat of Napoleon, …
