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Author | : Anthony Barnett |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0571290671 |
On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for her second election victory. Anthony Barnett's Iron Britannia, first published in 1982, turned down the din of war and diagnosed something rotten in the British state. This new edition offers a new extended preface by Barnett, addressing UK foreign policy post-Falklands; plus additional texts Barnett wrote at the time. 'A furious, sometimes gleeful and often witty polemic against the decaying British political system which the conflict revealed.' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books 'Anthony Barnett makes a variety of telling points... Most tellingly of all, the concept he puts forward of 'Churchillism', the rhetoric of national unity which overrides party and class considerations.' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement 'Done with almost Swiftian vigour. I warmly recommend it.' John Fowles, Guardian
Author | : Anthony Barnett |
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Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780805281484 |
Author | : Anthony Barnett |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : John Creighton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2006-01-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134318405 |
Completely re-evaluates evidence for the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain
Author | : Stephen Rippon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199645825 |
It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Falkland Islands War, 1982 |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Iron |
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Total Pages | : 1474 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Marine engineering |
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Total Pages | : 954 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Marine insurance |
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