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Article: There's always been an England ... sort of.(Features)(Books)(Revising History)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 18, 2000
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THE ISLES: A HISTORY By Norman Davies Oxford University Press 1,222 pp., $45
Over recent decades, revisionist historians have altered our views of the past, giving us a fresher, more human sense of previous events and peoples. But generally, these historical pioneers confine themselves to a small patch - a single epoch or leader or a single country in time.
Not so with Norman Davies. An authority on Poland and Central Europe, he widened his revisionist net to write the bestselling "Europe: A History" (Oxford University Press, 1996). Now, with "The Isles: A History," he has turned his attention homeward to trace the historical evolution of not just ...