The English : a portrait of a people / Jeremy Paxman.
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TextPublication details: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2000Description: ix, 308 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 1585670421; 9781585670420Subject(s): National characteristics, English | England -- CivilizationDDC classification: 942 LOC classification: DA118 | .P35 2000
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Summary: Paxman provides, "a probing, irreverent, and immensely colorful look at the meaning of Englishness."--dust jacket.
The Land of Lost Content -- Funny Foreigners -- The English Empire -- 'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies -- We Happy Few -- The Parish of the Senses -- Home Alone -- There Always Was an England -- The Ideal Englishman -- Meet the Wife -- Old Country, New Clothes.
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Originally published: London : Michael Joseph, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.
The Land of Lost Content -- Funny Foreigners -- The English Empire -- 'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies -- We Happy Few -- The Parish of the Senses -- Home Alone -- There Always Was an England -- The Ideal Englishman -- Meet the Wife -- Old Country, New Clothes.
Paxman provides, "a probing, irreverent, and immensely colorful look at the meaning of Englishness."--dust jacket.
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