The British Imagination
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Before the 16th century Britain was a small, out-of-the-way
backwater, lagging far behind other global powers in terms of power
and innovation. This all changed when Queen Elizabeth I was
crowned. During her reign, creative and intellectual life
flourished as never before, and Britain became one of the leading
nations of ‘the West’.It has remained a major power ever since.
What happened in the last five hundred years to bring about this
change, and to maintain it? And what can it tell us about the
unique nature of British identity and exceptionalism today?The
British Imagination is a masterful journey through 500 years of
history, from Shakespeare to Woolf, the Royal Society to the
industrial revolution, and from the first New World colonies to the
empire that by the 1920s had colonised a quarter of the world. The
key tenets of British history, Peter Watson argues, are religion,
empirical science, commerce and empire.Breathtaking in scope,
covering everything from astronomy to geology, philosophy to
literature, The British Imagination is a spellbinding tour of the
most influential ideas – and the extraordinary people – who made
Britain what it is today. &,nbsp,
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Simon & Schuster Ltd ,
Peter Watson
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Simon & Schuster Ltd,
Peter Watson
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Slovart
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Slovart
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