Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used – sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently – to stake out our common ground, to define what makes us essentially English, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9780748131747 ● Publisher Little, Brown Book Group ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2752044 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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