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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: TT.GE.EG Hist / College 2c - AV-Medien Geschichte	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

History, especially British history, with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure (Simon Schama).Simon Schama starts his history in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Christian missionaries arrive, fight, settle and leave their mark on what will become the nations of Britain.1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hour s while the Battle of Hastings raged, everything changed. Anglo-Saxon England became Norman and for the next 300 years its fate was decided by dynasties of French rulers.There is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty, donineering father, beautiful, scheming mother ans squabbling, murderous sons. In the years that followed the Norman Conquest, this was the drama played out on the stage of British history.Nations is thew epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks"King Edward I. with a sense of who and what they were, which endures to this day.It took only six years for the plague to ravage the British isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this trauma an unexpected and unique class of Englishman emerged.Here Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith, turns into one of the most aggressive proponents of the new Protestant faith.This is the story of two queens: Elizabeth I. the consummate politician and Mary, Queen of Scots, thje Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation.The turbulent civil wars of the early seventeenth century would culminate in two events unique to British history: the public execution of a king and the creation of a republic. Schama tells of the brutal warthat tore the country in half and created a new Britain, divided by politics and religionand dominated by the first truly modern army, fighting for ideology, not individual leaders.Political and religious revolutions racked Britain after Charles 1's execution, when Britain was a joyless, kingless republic led by Oliver Cromwell.His rule became so unpopular that for many it was a relief when the monarchy was restored after his death, but Cromwell was also a man of vision, who brought about significant reforms.As the new century dawned, relations between Scotland and England had never been worse. Yet half a century later the two countries would be making a future together based on profit and interest. This new Britain was based on money, notGod.The Worng Empire is the exhilarating and terrible story of how one small group of islands came to dominate the world: a story of exploration and daring, but also one of exploitation and conflict.Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close: In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the romantic generation also discovered the plight of the common man, turning nature into a revolutionary force.As the Victorian era began, the massive advance of technology and industrialisation was rapidly reshaping both the landscape and the social structure of the whole country. To a much greater extent than ever before women would take a centre-stage role in shaping society.The Empire of Good Intentions charts the chequered life of the liberal empire from Ireland to Italia, the promise of civilisation and material betterment and the delivery of coercion and famine.In the final episode, Schama examines the overwhelming presence of the past in the British twentieth century and the struggle of leaders to find a way to make a different national future. As towering figures of the twentieth century, Churchill and Orwell in their different ways exemplify lives spent brooding and acting on that imperial past, and most movingly for us, writing and shaping its history.