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"The English"
Barzun, Jacques | August 14, 1943 issue

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The article presents discussions on two books. The books are: "Britain and the British People" by the author Ernest Barker and "The English People: Impressions and Observations" by the author D.W. Brogan. Though the two works before are both written by professors of history, they ought not to be compared. Whereas Barker's covers in slightly more than 125 pages the standard topics of social and political description, Brogan's ranges discursively over all imaginable subjects, in 300 packed pages. It is notable, however, that both writers have been forced by their aim to assert that the English are very much a group apart, of whom certain things can be predicated with assurance.

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BOOKS; BRITAIN & the British People (Book); ENGLISH People: Impressions & Observations, The (Book); BRITISH; ENGLISH; ETHNOLOGY -- Great Britain; GREAT Britain
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