The English and Their History (Robert Tombs) - The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past
This book is a massive history of the English, written by an English expert on France, Robert Tombs. Somehow, against the odds, it manages to be sprightly, interesting, and, most of all, generally upbeat about the past, present, and future of England. Tombs rejects the idea of “Whig history,” not because English progress does not| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
