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Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain: I.B. Tauris

Editat de Roger Louis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2009
The latest volume in Wm. Roger Louis' acclaimed "Adventures with Britannia" series takes the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" deals with a rich variety of themes - some familiar, many unexpected. The scope of this wide-ranging volume includes not only the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but also the interaction between British and other societies throughout the world. The chapters embracing historical themes include Brian Harrison and Dominic Sandbrook on the 1960s and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Churchill and the Jews. In Britannia's literary domain, Dan Jacobson assesses Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot while Margaret Macmillan asks how well Paul Scott's Raj Quartet bears up after some four decades. And in a combination of cultural, architectural and intellectual history, Bernard Wasserstein traces the decline and possible revival of the 'second city in the Empire', Glasgow.
"Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" retains all the intellectual originality and accessibility that characterise the earlier volumes in this series and continues a stimulating and highly appealing tradition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848851535
ISBN-10: 1848851537
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Seria I.B. Tauris

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Authors
Introduction Wm. Roger Louis
1 Glasgow in the 1950s Bernard Wasserstein
2 Historiographical Hazards of Sixties Britain Brian Harrison
3 Against the Permissive Society: The Backlash
of the Late 1960s Dominic Sandbrook
4 Trevor-Roper's Scotland Roy Foster
5 Chatham House and All That Roger Morgan
6 The Study of International Relations in Historical
Perspective Adam Roberts
7 Balthazar Solvyns and Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.
8 John Frederick Lewis and Nineteenth-Century Cairo Caroline Williams
9 Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Richard Jenkyns
10 Eliot versus Hardy Dan Jacobson
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11 Such, Such Was Eric Blair Julian Barnes
12 Drink and the Old Devil Peter Green
13 Elegy for an Empire: Paul Scott's Raj Quartet Margaret MacMillan
14 Churchill's Zionism Geoffrey Wheatcroft
15 Julian Amery: The Ultimate Imperial Adventurer Sue Onslow
16 Colonial Independence David Cannadine
17 The Failure of the West Indies Federation Jason Parker
18 W. K. Hancock and the Question of Race Saul Dubow
19 Historians of the British Empire, plus 100 Top Hits of Imperial History John Darwin
20 Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq Shareen Brysac
21 The Aftermath of the 1958 Revolution in Iraq Roby Barrett
22 Comparing British and American 'Empires' A. G. Hopkins
23 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2009