'IAN MORRIS HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A LEADER IN MAKING BIG HISTORY
INTERESTING AND UNDERSTANDABLE' JARED DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF _GUNS, GERMS
AND STEEL_
'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into
a single book' Robert Colvile, _The Times_
For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on
which the sun never set - but for
thousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a
cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore.
Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian
Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed
in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Isles
from the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined
Britons' destinies.
From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by
customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more
powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a
United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce
and culture.
But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what
fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?
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ISBN
9781782833512
Publisert
2022
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Profile Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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