Thomas Dixon (Reader, School of History, Queen Mary University of L

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Weeping Britannia

Portrait of a Nation in Tears

Beschreibung

The history of six centuries of weeping Britons. A comprehensive debunking of the myth of the British 'stiff upper lip', from medieval mystics to Margaret Thatcher.

Autor

Thomas Dixon is a historian of emotions, philosophy, science, and religion at Queen Mary University of London, where he directs the Centre for the History of the Emotions. A regular contributor to radio and television programmes as an academic consultant, interviewee, and presenter, he was the consultant for Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain, a three-part BBC Two series in 2012. The author of several books and numerous articles on the history of ideas, in 2008 he was awarded the Dingle Prize (for the best book on the history of science accessible to a wide readership) for his Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, also published by Oxford University Press. In 2014, he wrote and presented a fifteen-part series, Five Hundred Years of Friendship, for BBC Radio 4.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780199676057
• ISBN-10: 0199676054
• Artikelnr.: 42767829