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  The English: A Portrait of a People (Paperback) By (author) Jeremy Paxman

  

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  Short Description for The EnglishCovering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and more, this book includes stories and anecdotes that provide a portrait of the English nation and its people.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 December 2007
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography | British & Irish History
  • ISBN 13: 9780141032955 ISBN 10: 0141032952
  • Sales rank: 33,270

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Full description for The English

• Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: Why do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted? What is behind the English obsession with games? How did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food? Where did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy? Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and much, much more, "The English" brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.