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Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era de Alwyn Turner

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Autor Alwyn Turner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 ian 2025

Observăm că studenții la istorie, cercetătorii perioadei moderne și pasionații de istorie socială vor găsi în Little Englanders o perspectivă revigorantă asupra unei epoci adesea idealizate. Departe de a fi doar o „după-amiază lungă a imperiului”, era edwardiană este prezentată aici ca un laborator al schimbării seismice care a prefigurat Marea Britanie de astăzi. Apreciem modul în care Alwyn Turner refuză nostalgia sterilă, preferând să exploreze dinamismul social prin lentila culturii populare: de la atmosfera sălilor de spectacol music-hall și primele concursuri de frumusețe pentru bărbați, până la realitatea dură a bandelor de stradă Peaky Blinders. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Edwardians de Paul R Thompson, însă acolo unde Thompson utilizează istoria orală pentru a documenta viața cotidiană, Turner adoptă o abordare mai narativă și panoramică, integrând scandalurile epocii și fanteziile imperialiste într-un flux alert. Credem că această lucrare se poziționează ca o piesă centrală în opera autorului, continuând explorarea identității britanice începută în A Shellshocked Nation. Dacă în volumul anterior Turner analiza tensiunile anilor '20 și '30, în Little Englanders el demonstrează că rădăcinile modernității au fost plantate imediat după moartea Reginei Victoria. Stilul este precis, dar plin de viață, reușind să transforme faptele istorice riguroase într-o cronică socială captivantă despre șarlatani, criminali și vizionari.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781800815315
ISBN-10: 180081531X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă cum s-a născut modernitatea britanică dincolo de clișeele aristocratice. Veți câștiga o imagine de ansamblu asupra unei perioade de tranziție fascinante, unde sportul global, cultura de masă și schimbările politice radicale au început să redefinească societatea. Este o resursă excelentă pentru cei care caută o istorie documentată, dar scrisă cu vervă editorială.

Despre autor

Alwyn Turner este un istoric britanic recunoscut pentru abilitatea sa de a transforma istoria socială și politică în narațiuni accesibile și pline de spirit. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără A Shellshocked Nation, o analiză a Marii Britanii interbelice, și All In It Together, care explorează era Blair-Cameron prin prisma culturii populare. Turner este adesea lăudat de critici pentru modul în care reușește să integreze elemente de „pop culture” în analizele sale istorice serioase, fiind considerat un maestru al cronicilor care aduc trecutul aproape de cititorul contemporan.

Notă biografică

Alwyn Turner is best known for his trilogy of books about Britain in the last decades of the 20th century: Crisis? What Crisis? (2008), Rejoice! Rejoice! (2010) and A Classless Society (2013). His last book, All in it Together: England in the Early 21st Century was a Sunday Times 'Book of the Year'.

Descriere scurtă

'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday TimesA Times Best Paperback of 2025'For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos' 'History Books of the Year', The Times'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David KynastonWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Many later remembered the era that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians knew the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, bringing their history alive through music halls and male beauty contests, the 1908 Summer Olympics and the real Peaky Blinders. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.

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Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history
Alwyn Turner has a knack for making the past pop to life ... All human life is crammed into this rollicking account.
There have been plenty of books on the Edwardians before, but never one as richly enjoyable as this
For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos. The scope is vast, covering everything from the suffragettes to The Wind in the Willows, and Alwyn Turner proves a wonderfully enthusiastic narrator
[Turner is] always entertainingly brilliant
Amusing and engaging ... [a] portrait of a poignant interlude in British history
A page-turner of a popular history of the period, crammed with humour and striking quotes
Little Englanders hums and thrums to the texture and tone of everyday Edwardian life
Engrossing ... Alwyn Turner is an assured guide to this brief but dramatic era
Well written, often fascinating
Alwyn Turner has achieved the remarkable feat of shedding new light on the Edwardian era ... his research is impressive and [Little Englanders] is consistently stimulating
A welcome contribution to an oft-overlooked period ... Turner smashes the mythologies of the age ... a remarkable yet accessible read ... what Turner does so well is capture the cultural landscape, treating us to the leisure, the stories, the songs and the movies of the era ... Ultimately, Turner paints a vivid picture of a tempestuous age: an emerging modernity Britain battling for stability and order
The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets the record straight, bringing its characters, strains and stresses brilliantly to life
The very best sort of panoramic portrait, full of vivid characters, emblematic anecdotes and telling social detail, all underpinned by penetrating historical judgement. The Edwardians have fascinated readers for more than a century, yet even those who think they know the period will find much to discover and savour in Alwyn Turner's sometimes unsettling but always life-enhancing pages
Britain's most electrifying contemporary social historian conjures the forgotten country of more than a century ago ... to reveal a strikingly foreign world which nonetheless holds up a dusty mirror to our own. A magnificent triumph over cultural amnesia, brimming with insight and impossible to put down. Fiercely recommended
Every page grips and delights as Alwyn Turner presents a deeply researched yet gorgeously entertaining double vision of something now almost fantastical - a United Kingdom in full Imperial glory - yet unnervingly familiar
Alwyn Turner is a wonderful raconteur of historical eras. He has a sense for character, and story, and bizarre anecdote, that makes an epoch come alive and makes you feel, at times, that you're living in Edwardian times, albeit with much better food. This is history written from below, and above, and all milieus in between
Alwyn has the happy knack of making history slip down like a pint of Best. The facts and references and context are all there, yet the whole thing flows like an ideal conversation between two or three well informed friends, teasing out the truth from the half remembered myths of the recent past
There is something fascinating and fleeting about the Edwardian era. It is both an ending and a beginning. Little Englanders captures the period perfectly, in all its confidence and uncertainty
An interesting social history of a time that proved much more significant than simply a transition between the reign of Victoria and what we now refer to as Modernity
A wonderful and rollicking account of the popular culture of Edwardian Britain, based on a massive amount of reading of the popular literature of the period. It is as entertaining as it is perceptive
How the Edwardians shaped 20th century Britain ... a readable new account