A World by Itself

A thought provoking and uncompromising book…[which] will surely influence the way we regard ourselves and our country (not just Britain but also Scotland) in the years to come – Trevor Royle * Sunday Herald *[A] confident and fascinating history of Britain… Masterful… It is a volume that speaks well to our own sense of Britain today as a globalised, trading island retreating back to the edges of power… damned good – Tristram Hunt * Observer *This single-volume history manages to combine a balanced new survey of the past with a rousing declaration of the historian’s moral obligations… This is a very good book to have on the shelf – Christian Tyler * Financial Times *I thoroughly recommend the book, written by a collection of top-hole experts in their field… Excellent – A. N. Wilson[A World By Itself] tells how a small group of islands on the rain-swept edge of the Roman Empire came to shape the civilised world, effectively inventing parliamentary democracy, industrialisation, free trade and globalisation, as well as bequeathing to posterity the greatest body of literature on earth – Dominic Sandbrook * Daily Telegraph *A massive work of scholarship * Guardian *Compelling * Scotsman *Impressive * History Today *

Formerly of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford, Jonathan Clark is currently Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. James Campbell, until 2002 Professor of Medieval History at Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Academy. John Gillingham is Emeritus Professor of History at LSE and the Fellow of the British Academy. Jenny Wormald is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, and formerly of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. William D. Rubinstein is Professor of History at the Universty of Wales, Aberystwyth. Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, and author of a multi-award-winning three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes.

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