A History of Britain 3 - The Fate of the Empire 1776-2001
Author(s): Simon Schama
Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the "Romantic generation" also discovered the plight of the common man, turning Nature into a revolutionary force. This power of the cult of nature enabled two things - to make man see and explore Britain in a way unimaginable a generation before, and to pit democrat cosmopolitans against patriots.
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- : BBC
- : 01 January 2003
- : books
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- : Simon Schama
- : Paperback
- : very good
- : 448