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The English: A Portrait of a People
2007, Penguin Books
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The English: A Portrait of a People
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Table of Contents
Preface
Page vii
1.
The Land of Lost Content
Page 1
2.
Funny Foreigners
Page 24
3.
The English Empire
Page 43
4.
'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies
Page 60
5.
We Happy Few
Page 77
6.
The Parish of the Senses
Page 93
7.
Home Alone
Page 115
8.
There Always Was an England
Page 141
9.
The Ideal Englishman
Page 176
10.
Meet the Wife
Page 207
11.
Old Country, New Clothes
Page 232
Acknowledgements
Page 267
Notes
Page 269
Bibliography
Page 283
Index
Page 297
Edition Notes
First published by Michael Joseph 1998
Published with minor revisions in Penguin Books 1999
Reissued in this edition 2007
Printed in England.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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