More adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics and culture in Britain
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More adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics and culture in Britain
University of Texas Press , I.B.Tauris, 1998
- us : hbk.
- us : pbk.
- uk : hbk.
- uk : pbk.
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Description and Table of Contents
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us : hbk. ISBN 9780292747081
Description
Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.
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us : pbk. ISBN 9780292747098
Description
Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.
Table of Contents
List of Authors
Introduction
Linda Colley, "The Significance of the Frontier in British History"
Jack Greene, "The British Revolution in America"
Walter L. Arnstein, "Queen Victoria's Other Island"
Reba Soffer, "Was It Possible to be a Good Catholic, a Good Englishman, and a Good Historian?"
R. W. B. Lewis, "Henry James: The Victorian Scene"
Thomas Pinney, "In Praise of Kipling"
S. P. Rosenbaum, "Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press"
Mark Kinkead-Weekes, "Beyond Gossip: D. H. Lawrence's Writing Life"
Bernard Crick, "Orwell and the Business of Biography"
Peter Stansky, "Nineteen Eighty-Four Ten Years Later"
Philip Ziegler, "Mountbatten Revised"
John Grigg, "Myths about the Approach to Indian Independence"
Warren F. Kimball, "'A Victorian Tory': Churchill, the Americans, and Self-Determination"
John Ramsden, "'That Will Depend on Who Writes the History': Winston Churchill as His Own Historian"
Paul Addison, "British Historians and the Debate over the 'Post-War Consensus'"
Noel Annan, "Our Age Revisited"
Samuel H. Beer, "The Rise and Fall of Party Government in Britain and the United States, 1945-1996"
John W. Cell, "Who Ran the British Empire?"
Anthony Hopkins, "From Africa to Empire"
Joanna Hitchcock, "British and North American University Presses"
British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-1998
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uk : hbk. ISBN 9781860642876
Description
Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book takes the reader on an excursion through colonialism and Britain's role in the 20th century. It includes the personalities, politics and culture of the British Isles.
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uk : pbk. ISBN 9781860642937
Description
Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book takes the reader on an excursion through colonialism and Britain's role in the 20th century. It includes the personalities, politics and culture of the British Isles.
Table of Contents
- The significance of the frontier in British history, Linda Colley
- the British revolution in America, Jack P. Greene
- Queen Victoria's other island, Walter L. Arnstein
- was it possible to be a good Catholic. a good Englishman, and a good historian? Reba Soffer
- Henry James - the Victorian scene, R.W.B. Lewis
- in praise of Kipling, Thomas Pinney
- Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, S.P. Rosenbaum
- beyond gossip - D.H. Lawrence's writing life, Mark Kinkead-Weekes
- Orwell and the business of biography, Bernard Stansky
- Mountbatten revisited, Philip Ziegler
- myths about the approach to Indian independence, John Grigg
- "a Victorian tory" - Churchill, the Americans, and self-determination, Warren F. Kimball
- "that will depend on who writes the history? - Winston Churchill as his own historian, John Ramsden
- British historians and the debate over the "postwar concensus", Paul Addison
- our age revisited, Noel Annan
- the rise and fall of party government in Britain and the United States, 1945-1996, Samuel W. Cell
- from Africa to empire, Antony Hopkins
- British and North American University Presses, Joanna Hitchcock
- British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-1998.
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