Life of R. H. Tawney

Socialism and History

AvLawrence Goldman

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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R. H. Tawney was the most influential theorist and exponent of socialism in Britain in the 20th century and also a leading historian. Based on papers deposited at the London School of Economics including a collection of personal material previously held by his family, this book provides the first detailed biography. Lawrence Goldman shows that to understand Tawney's work it is necessary to understand his life.This biography takes a broadly chronological approach, and uses this framework to examine major themes, including Tawney's political thought and historical writings. Tawney was the most representative of Labour's intellectuals as well as the most influential, and the contradictions he embodied are evident in the general history of British socialism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472577429

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Lawrence Goldman is a Fellow and Tutor in History at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK and the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Although there have been earlier studies of Tawney’s life and thought that were broadly biographical in structure, Lawrence Goldman’s is the first to be based on a full examination of the surviving archives, including family papers hitherto closed to researchers. The resulting book is notably thorough, judicious and fair-minded. It is also – and this is something that can be said of all too few biographies – informed by a disciplined understanding of the main currents of the political, social and economic history that provided the setting for Tawney’s work. And, to his great credit, Goldman is not inclined to exaggerate his subject’s importance.

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Introduction1. Calcutta, Rugby, Oxford, Whitechapel 2. Courtship and Marriage 3. Workers' Education 4. The Somme 5. Reconstruction after the First World War: Coal6. Tawney between the Wars 7. Socialism and Christianity8. Education9. History10. London and Washington: The Second World War11. Last Things: 1945-6212. Conclusion: Politics, Reputation and StylePost Script: Tawney Fifty Years onNotesIllustrations Bibliography Index