'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history.
Dějiny Británie Série
Tato epická série zkoumá bohatou a komplexní minulost britských ostrovů od prehistorických dob až po obrat stěžejního milénia. Poutavý vyprávěcí styl oživuje klíčové momenty, postavy a společenské proměny, které formovaly národ. Od raných civilizací po vzestup a pád impéria, tato práce nabízí hluboký vhled do britské identity a jejího místa ve světě. Je to podmanivá cesta historií, která osloví každého zájemce o minulost.
Doporučené pořadí čtení
Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of 'Britannia Incorporated'.
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire
Simon Schama’s dramatic, broad-ranging, and immensely readable epic history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this third and final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present.