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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Clark
|title=A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=As one who has always felt most at ease with the standard chronological approach to history, driven by events and major personalities, I found the close-on 700 pages of this volume fairly demanding reading in places. It is divided into six parts, each by a different contributor with the editor himself writing the fourth. Each part is divided into Material Cultures, followed by essays on topics (not for all sections) on Religious Cultures; Religion, Nationalism and Identity; and Political and National Cultures. What we have, therefore, is an overview of events from each period, more thorough in some instances than others, and a certain amount of theorizing on the general social, political and even artistic background. A straightforward history through the ages – it is not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712664963</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Peter Hart