- Published: 15 February 2011
- ISBN: 9780712664967
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 768
- RRP: $59.99
A World by Itself
A History of the British Isles
- Published: 15 February 2011
- ISBN: 9780712664967
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 768
- RRP: $59.99
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