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Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation
Beef and Liberty Roast Beef John Bull and the English Nation
Author: Ben Rogers
In Shakespeare's Henry V the French lords quail at the thought of British soldiers, who eat like wolves and fight like devils after 'great meals of beef'. Two centuries later, eighteenth-century England rings to boisterous renderings of 'The Roast beef of Old England' and loud cries of 'Beef and Liberty'. And, even today, the French ban on Briti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099286394
ISBN-10: 0099286394
Publication Date: 3/4/2004
Pages: 214
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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