A magisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day, by six of our most prestigious and engaging historians. For fans of Norman Davies, Francis Pryor, and Simon Schama.
Formerly of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford, Jonathan Clark is currently Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. James Campbell, until 2002 Professor of Medieval History at Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Academy. John Gillingham is Emeritus Professor of History at LSE and the Fellow of the British Academy. Jenny Wormald is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, and formerly of St Hilda's College, Oxford. William D. Rubinstein is Professor of History at the Universty of Wales, Aberystwyth. Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, and author of a multi-award-winning three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
A thought provoking and uncompromising book...[which] will surely
influence the way we regard ourselves and our country (not just
Britain but also Scotland) in the years to come
*Sunday Herald*
[A] confident and fascinating history of Britain... Masterful... It
is a volume that speaks well to our own sense of Britain today as a
globalised, trading island retreating back to the edges of power...
damned good
*Observer*
This single-volume history manages to combine a balanced new survey
of the past with a rousing declaration of the historian's moral
obligations... This is a very good book to have on the shelf
*Financial Times*
I thoroughly recommend the book, written by a collection of
top-hole experts in their field... Excellent
*A. N. Wilson*
[A World By Itself] tells how a small group of islands on the
rain-swept edge of the Roman Empire came to shape the civilised
world, effectively inventing parliamentary democracy,
industrialisation, free trade and globalisation, as well as
bequeathing to posterity the greatest body of literature on
earth
*Daily Telegraph*
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