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Hardcover Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears Book

ISBN: 0199676054

ISBN13: 9780199676057

Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

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There is a persistent myth about the British: that they are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia--the first history of crying in Britain--comprehensively debunks this myth.

Far from being a persistent element in the "national character", the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of the nation's past,...

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