Resurgent Adventures with Britannia

Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Resurgent Adventures with Britannia builds upon Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia, and draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. They provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes, both political and cultural, which have shaped 20th century state and society. There is detailed consideration of the works of leading figures in art, literature, politics and scholarship - including portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Neal Ascherson, Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan and Margaret Thatcher by Archie Brown - and how these stellar figures have been deeply affected by war, the imperial experience, decolonization, the enduring problems of the Middle East, Communism, the Cold War and the British-America connections. And there are assessments by leading historians of statesmen, and episodes in global history, which have shaped the modern age.The result is a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, which together provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-29
Mått:162 x 236 x 30 mm
Vikt:840 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780760575

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire and the author of many books including Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonisation (I.B.Tauris), The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 and Imperialism at Bay, 1941-1945.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction by Wm. Roger Louis1British Architecture by Bernard Porter2Kipling and America by Thomas Pinney3French and British Colonial Heroes by Bernard Sebe4Henry James and British Power by Priscilla Roberts5Virginia Woolf and Russia by Roberta Rubenstein6Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War by Sam Williamson7Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings8Olivia Manning by Phyllis Lasner9Julian Bell by Peter Stansky10Auden by Steven Isenberg11Bowra by Glen Bowersock12Trevor-Roper by Neil Ascherson13Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan14The Third Man by Donna Kornhaber15Harold Macmillan and the Wind of Change by Joanna Lewis16The End of the European Colonial Empires by Crawford Young17Life in the Zambian Copper Belt by John Berry18Mrs. Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown19Invictus by Dan Jacobson20The Grand Illusion by Geoffrey Wheatcroft21British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2011