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Albinia, Alice, 1976- author.
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Archipelagoes -- Great Britain.
Islands.
British Isles.
Great Britain.
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The Britannias : an ...
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The Britannias : an archipelago's tale / Alice Albinia.
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Albinia, Alice, 1976- author.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024
Subjects
Archipelagoes -- Great Britain.
Islands.
British Isles.
Great Britain.
ISBN:
9780393608557 (hardcover) :
0393608557 (hardcover)
Description:
xxii, 483 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First American edition.
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).
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"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 the farthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known by the collective term "Britanniae" (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia takes us over borders and through disparate island cultures, past and present. She uncovers the enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women--finding female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs--and sheds light on women's status in the body politic today. The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty. 1 map; 14 black-and-white illustrations" -- Goodreads.
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05/20/2024
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