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Englishness Identified : Manners and Character 1650-1850, Paperback / softback Book

Englishness Identified : Manners and Character 1650-1850 Paperback / softback

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In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers.

Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire.

These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English.

Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication.

The evolution of the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.

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