Robert Tombs
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The English and their History
27 editions
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2014
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This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
5 editions
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2021
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That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
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The Paris Commune 1871
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1999
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France, 1814 - 1914
9 editions
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1996
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Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory
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2013
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The War Against Paris, 1871
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1981
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Nationhood and Nationalism in France: From Boulangism to the Great War 1889-1918
7 editions
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1991
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PARIS, BIVOUAC DES REVOLUTIONS - LA COMMUNE DE 1871
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NATIONHOOD & NATIONALISM IN FR
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“nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the gay or the banquets of the rich. The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay: they”
― The English and Their History
― The English and Their History
“Kings did not meet systematic opposition from barons, parliaments or peasants. With no police force or standing army, other than the household retinue, they could keep order and enforce the law only because their subjects, from earls to villeins, provided the muscle to do so.”
― The English and Their History
― The English and Their History
“Alone of the Germanic tongues, it had received a massive influx of words from Latin and French, which doubled its vocabulary. Between 1250 and 1450, of 27,000 new words identified, 22 percent were derived from French, and most others from Latin. English often acquired several words for the same concept. They were sometimes used in tandem to make meaning sure, or just for rhetorical purposes, as in “aiding and abetting,” “fit and proper,” “peace and quiet.” In due course they could acquire nuances of meaning, as with “kingly,” “royal” and “regal,” or “loving,” “amorous” and “charitable,” from English, French and Latin respectively. Linguistic flexibility was greatly enhanced by bolting together grammatical elements from each language. Prefixes and suffixes made word creation easy: for example, the Old English “ful” added to French nouns (beautiful, graceful); or French suffixes with Old English verbs (knowable, findable). It has been argued that this made it really a new language.37 But the basics remained, and remain, Anglo-Saxon: in modern written English, the hundred most frequently used words are all derived from Old English.”
― The English and Their History
― The English and Their History
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