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21 produkter
Twilight of the Dons
British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 2026
325 kr
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The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment …
Literature and Union
Scottish Texts, British Contexts
Av Colin Kidd, Gerard Carruthers
E-bok, 2018
637 kr
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Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. …
Literature and Union
Scottish Texts, British Contexts
Av Colin Kidd, Gerard Carruthers
E-bok, 2018
637 kr
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Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. …
Literature and Union
Scottish Texts, British Contexts
Av Gerard Carruthers, Gerard Carruthers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
862 kr
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Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. …
British Identities before Nationalism
Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Av Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2006
738 kr
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Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin …
Subverting Scotland's Past
Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 1993
1677 kr
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This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable …
Subverting Scotland's Past
Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830
Av Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2003
754 kr
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This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable …
British Identities before Nationalism
Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 1999
1677 kr
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Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin …
Union and Unionisms
Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000
Av Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish …
The Forging of Races
Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 2006
1391 kr
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This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on …
The Forging of Races
Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000
Av Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2006
442 kr
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This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on …
Union and Unionisms
Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 2008
1322 kr
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Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish …
Twilight of the Dons
British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
Av Colin Kidd
E-bok, 2026
440 kr
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The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridgethe donsformed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment …
Twilight of the Dons
British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism
Av Colin Kidd
E-bok, 2026
455 kr
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The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridgethe donsformed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment …
The World of Mr Casaubon
Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870
Av Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 2016
911 kr
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The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary …
The World of Mr Casaubon
Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700-1870
Av Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2018
557 kr
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The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary …
Volney: 'The Ruins' and 'Catechism of Natural Law'
Av Constantin Volney, Colin Kidd
Inbunden, 2024
1384 kr
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Volney was once as influential as Tom Paine, and the author of one of the most popular works of the French Revolutionary era. The Ruins of Empires makes an argument for popular sovereignty, couched in the alluring and accessible form of an Oriental dream-tale. A favourite of both Thomas Jefferson, …
Volney: 'The Ruins' and 'Catechism of Natural Law'
Av Constantin Volney, Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2024
420 kr
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Volney was once as influential as Tom Paine, and the author of one of the most popular works of the French Revolutionary era. The Ruins of Empires makes an argument for popular sovereignty, couched in the alluring and accessible form of an Oriental dream-tale. A favourite of both Thomas Jefferson, …
Political Advice
Past, Present and Future
Av Colin Kidd, Jacqueline Rose
Inbunden, 2021
1134 kr
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The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far …
Political Advice
Past, Present and Future
Av Colin Kidd, Jacqueline Rose
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
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Political advice has never seemed more prominent – or more problematic. This volume of essays speaks to a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence, the …
International Companion to John Galt
Av Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd
Häftad, 2017
426 kr
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John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired in his own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and his works – poised between Enlightenment and …
