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Isle of Man: Portrait of a Nation (Hardcover)
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Isle of Man: Portrait of a Nation (Hardcover)
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The Isle of Man is best known as a holiday destination and as the
venue of the TT motorcycle races. In recent years, it has also
become recognized as an international financial centre for banking
and commerce. What is not so well understood is the island's status
as an internally self-governing dependency of the British Crown
(with its own parliament), and its long quest for national
self-determination from the time of the enforced sale of the island
to the British Crown in 1765.In "The Isle of Man: Portrait of a
Nation", John Grimson tells the story of the island's evolution,
from its geological birth pangs in the Cambrian Period of
pre-history, some 500 million years ago, through successive waves
of Stone-Age, Bronze-Age and Celtic Iron-Age settlers, to the
Viking raids and settlements of the eighth to thirteenth centuries,
which brought the origins of the island's unique system of
parliamentary government, and up to the political, social and
commercial developments of the modern era.In part two of the book,
the author takes us on a tour of the island's superb coastal and
upland landscapes, and around its historic towns, villages and
parishes. With the aid of some 200 illustrations, the book tells of
the Isle of Man and its people, and of how they came to be what
they are today.
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