The Britannias : an archipelago's tale /
"A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this "island nation." From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2024
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: In which the author moves to an island
- 1. Orkney, Neolithic (3000 BC)
- Part II: She encounters the islands of women
- 2. Anglesey, Druids (200 BC-AD 78)
- 3. Wight, Romans (AD 250-330)
- 4. Iona, Christ (AD 563)
- 5. Thanet, Augustine to the angles (AD 597)
- 6. Shetland, Vikings (ninth century AD)
- 7. Lindisfarne/Avalon, Reformations (1296-1537)
- Part III: Female utopias are dreamt of
- 8. Islay and the isles, Ri Innse Gall (twelfth century)
- 9. Rathlin, Empire (sixteenth century)
- 10. Scilly, Civil War (seventeenth century)
- Part IV: Womanly forms, having been co-opted, are reclaimed
- 11. Man, Tax (eighteenth century)
- 12. Western Isles, Exodus (nineteenth century)
- 13. Channel Islands, Inselwahn (twentieth century)
- Part V: And so she returns
- 14. Westminster, Estuary to elsewhere (twenty-first century).