'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history.
Dejiny Británie Séria
Táto epická séria skúma bohatú a komplexnú minulosť britských ostrovov od prehistorických čias až po obrat k novému miléniu. Pútavý rozprávačský štýl oživuje kľúčové momenty, postavy a spoločenské zmeny, ktoré formovali národ. Od raných civilizácií po vzostup a pád impéria, táto práca ponúka hlboký vhľad do britskej identity a jej miesta vo svete. Je to podmanivá cesta históriou, ktorá osloví každého záujemcu o minulosť.
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Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of 'Britannia Incorporated'.
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire
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