'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.
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Esta serie épica se sumerge en el rico y complejo pasado de las Islas Británicas, abarcando desde épocas prehistóricas hasta el umbral del nuevo milenio. El cautivador estilo narrativo da vida a momentos cruciales, figuras y cambios sociales que han moldeado la nación. Desde las primeras civilizaciones hasta el auge y la caída de un imperio, esta obra ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre la identidad británica y su impacto global. Es un fascinante viaje histórico para cualquiera interesado en las fuerzas que forjaron una nación.
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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.