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The English : a portrait of a people / Jeremy Paxman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2000.Description: ix, 308 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1585670421
  • 9781585670420
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942 21
LOC classification:
  • DA118 .P35 2000
Contents:
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.
Summary: Paxman provides, "a probing, irreverent, and immensely colorful look at the meaning of Englishness."--dust jacket.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 942/PAX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500047853

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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