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Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850
Englishness Identified Manners and Character 16501850 Author:Paul Langford Between 1650 and 1850 perceptions of the English were transformed, as a nation of supposed barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers evolved into a world power of political maturity, imperial grandeur, and industrial might. Englishness Identified traces the evolution of the so-called English national character through the impressions and analyses o... more »f foreign observers, and relates it to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of rapid change.« less