The MonarchyChatto & Windus, 1990 - 42 síður Part of a series, this book submits a proposal for the admission of republican principles into the national debate. The author examines the Royals as a national fetish that encourages servile but also snobbish attitudes. He calls for constitutional and political reform. |
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... British nor their foreign admirers and rivals know quite what the country is called . Most nations , ancient and modern , have an agreed name . But we do not know whether this nation inhabits England , Britain , the British Isles ...
... British nor their foreign admirers and rivals know quite what the country is called . Most nations , ancient and modern , have an agreed name . But we do not know whether this nation inhabits England , Britain , the British Isles ...
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... British the last people in the modern world to be subject to the authentic forms of monar- chy . An anthropologist observing our tribe for the first time would be bound to note a strongly marked and continuous adherence , in the first ...
... British the last people in the modern world to be subject to the authentic forms of monar- chy . An anthropologist observing our tribe for the first time would be bound to note a strongly marked and continuous adherence , in the first ...
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... British authorities had just informed the UN that they did not see their way to abolishing flogging in the mandated territories . Not exactly the Kingdom of Heaven , perhaps , but from some interested viewpoints not at all bad . One ...
... British authorities had just informed the UN that they did not see their way to abolishing flogging in the mandated territories . Not exactly the Kingdom of Heaven , perhaps , but from some interested viewpoints not at all bad . One ...
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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