Anglomania
A European Love Affair
Published on 10. September 2015
320 pages
978-1-78239-867-7 (ISBN)
Description
With its distinctive history of civil liberties and the delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest, England has always fascinated its continental neighbours.
Buruma examines the history of ideas of Englishness and what Europeans have admired (or loathed) in England across the centuries. Voltaire wondered why British laws could not be transplanted into France, or even to Serbia; Karl Marx thought the English were too stupid to start a revolution; Goethe worshipped Shakespeare; and the Kaiser was convinced that Britain was run by Jews.
Combining the stories of European Anglophiles and Anglophobes with memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family, this utterly original book illuminates the relationship between Britain and Europe, revealing how Englishness - and others' views of it - have shaped modern European history.
Buruma examines the history of ideas of Englishness and what Europeans have admired (or loathed) in England across the centuries. Voltaire wondered why British laws could not be transplanted into France, or even to Serbia; Karl Marx thought the English were too stupid to start a revolution; Goethe worshipped Shakespeare; and the Kaiser was convinced that Britain was run by Jews.
Combining the stories of European Anglophiles and Anglophobes with memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family, this utterly original book illuminates the relationship between Britain and Europe, revealing how Englishness - and others' views of it - have shaped modern European history.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-867-7 (9781782398677)
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Person
Ian Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in New York state. His books include God's Dust, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements and Murder in Amsterdam, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Current Interest Book and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the recipient of the 2008 Shorenstein Journalism Award, which honoured him for his distinguished body of work, and the 2008 Erasmus Prize.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Also by Ian Buruma
- Anglomania
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Churchill's Cigar
- 2 Voltaire's Coconuts
- 3 Goethe's Shakespeare
- 4 Fingal's Cave
- 5 The Parkomane
- 6 Graveyard of the Revolution
- 7 Schooldays
- 8 A Sporting Man
- 9 Wagnerians
- 10 Jewish Cricket
- 11 The Anglomane Who Hated England
- 12 Leslie Howard
- 13 Dr. Pevsner
- 14 The Man in the Tweed Coat
- 15 The Last Englishman
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
