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372 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"--
As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics almost fit in.
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x, 267 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski surveys the enduring but evolving myth of heroic failure in British culture over the last two centuries, arguing that it played an essential part in the nation'ss coming to terms with its changing role on the international stage.
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367 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Where are you really from? You're British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking you where are from? Brit(ish) is about a search for identity. It is about the everyday racism that plagues British society. It is about our awkward, troubled relationship with our history. It is about why liberal attempts to be 'colour-blind' have caused more...
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xxviii, 345 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In this brilliantly illuminating work exploring the realities and legacies of empire, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in its imperial past. In prose that is at once both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera shows how the past is everywhere in the United Kingdom, also drawing critical links to similarities in the United States and around the world. Empire--British or otherwise--informs...
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Murder-a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves?
Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of the modern era, murder entered the popular psyche, and...
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