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The Celts A Sceptical History
The Celts A Sceptical History
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Description: A Waterstones BEST History BOOK Simon Jenkins as ever writes with clarity and insight Times One of the liveliest commentators in Britain always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian Jeremy Paxman Guardian Who were the Celts? Were they a people a civilisation an empire or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past purported ancestors of the Irish Welsh Scottish Cornish and Bretons. Yet they have never been identified with any one land or with any one history or language. Simon Jenkins argues compellingly that the Celts is a misleading concept bundling together quite distinct peoples. The word keltoi first appears in Greek applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians - and theories of Celticism continue to fuel many of the prejudices and misconceptions that divide the British Isles to this day. Fascinating and increasingly relevant who the Celts were - or weren't - goes to the heart of the ongoing argument over the future of a dis - United Kingdom.
Title: The Celts A Sceptical History
Author(s): Jenkins Simon (Columnist)
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788168816
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: European History
Description: A Waterstones BEST History BOOK Simon Jenkins as ever writes with clarity and insight Times One of the liveliest commentators in Britain always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian Jeremy Paxman Guardian Who were the Celts? Were they a people a civilisation an empire or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past purported ancestors of the Irish Welsh Scottish Cornish and Bretons. Yet they have never been identified with any one land or with any one history or language. Simon Jenkins argues compellingly that the Celts is a misleading concept bundling together quite distinct peoples. The word keltoi first appears in Greek applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians - and theories of Celticism continue to fuel many of the prejudices and misconceptions that divide the British Isles to this day. Fascinating and increasingly relevant who the Celts were - or weren't - goes to the heart of the ongoing argument over the future of a dis - United Kingdom.
Title: The Celts A Sceptical History
Author(s): Jenkins Simon (Columnist)
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781788168816
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Category: European History