British prime ministers and other essays
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British prime ministers and other essays
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2000
Available at 1 libraries
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1999
Includes index
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Description
A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90) must have a reasonable claim to be the most popular and influential British historian of the 20th century. Through his books, lectures, reviews and television appearances he made history accessible, controversial and enjoyable. His brilliant ability to communicate shines through in this publication of this new group of uncollected pieces, "British Prime Ministers" and other essays". These pieces show the whole breadth of Taylor's achievement in the short form he made his own - from full-blown lectures to brief reviews for the Observer - and celebrate his formidable gifts of concision wit and enthusiasm. Taylor wrote with equal relish about British domestic politics and European diplomacy and there are fine examples of both here - from his sketches of individual prime ministers to the complete texts of "How wars begin" and How wars end". Alongside other essays and reviews, this collection also publishes his entertaining and moving account of reaching his 80th birthday: "there are worse things than being 80. Some people tell me that being 81 is one of them. I am curious to verify this".
Table of Contents
- British Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole
- William Pitt the Younger
- Benjamin Disraeli
- W.E. Gladstone
- David Lloyd George
- Stanley Baldwin
- George Canning
- Lord Aberdeen
- Lord Palmerston
- Lord Salisbury
- Lord Rosebery
- A.J. Balfour
- H.H. Asquith
- Lloyd George
- Bonar Law
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Neville Chamberlain
- Winston Churchill
- Clement Attlee
- Anthony Edden. How wars begin: introduction
- the first modern war - from French Revolution to French Empire
- two contrasting wars - Crimea - the diplomatic war Italy, the war of liberation
- Bismarck's wars
- the First World War
- the Second World War
- the Cold War. How wars end: Napoleon's last great war
- the Congress of Vienna, 1815
- the First World War - Armistice
- the First World War - the Peace Conference.
- the Second World War
- present chaos. Miscellaneous reviews and articles: Lord Derby
- Lord Randolph Churchill
- William Morris -Marxist
- men and labours
- Edith Cavell
- Confusion on the left
- Horthy-culture
- British-made - Lord Haw-Haw
- the Astors - guardians of morality
- Harold Nicolson
- CND
- looking back at the 1950s
- history lesson we cannot ignore
- Beaverbrook - the man who never stood still
- Malcolm Muggeridge - woeful countenance
- commemorations
- the Year 1906
- when you have life don't waste it
- Manchester
- the Manchester Guardian
- Liverpool
- a gourmet's Europe
- from amateurs to professionals
- the Namier view of history
- historical wisdom
- history in a changing world
- the use and abuse of history.
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