{"product_id":"the-english-and-their-history-9781101873366","title":"The English and Their History","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, \u003ci\u003eThe English and Their History\u003c\/i\u003e is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBERT TOMBS\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of Cambridge and a leading scholar of Anglo-French relations. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eThat Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, \u003c\/i\u003e co-authored with his wife, Isabelle Tombs, is the first large-scale study of the relationship between the French and the British over the last three centuries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646741713170,"sku":"9781101873366","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b520fba-43a4-4fb3-8f04-dde30a6b8038.jpg?v=1733184427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-english-and-their-history-9781101873366","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}