The story of Britain--and the world--in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of the world's most famous debating society. A vivid, sometimes piquant, picture of a Britain that is now passing from living memory--and a powerful reminder of the ways in which the past really is a foreign country.
The story of Britain--and the world--in the first half of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of the world's most famous debating society. A vivid, sometimes piquant, picture of a Britain that is now passing from living memory--and a powerful reminder of the ways in which the past really is a foreign country.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
A member of the Oxford Union in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford, the late Edward Pearce had a long and distinguished career as a Parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and as a columnist for the Guardian and the Scotsman. He made intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout, and was one of the original panellists on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. He is the author of many books on politics and current affairs, including Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher (1987), The Quiet Rise of John Major (1991), and a biography of Denis Healey (2002). Over the last decade, he increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).
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Introduction: Early Days 1: Our Empire: Pride Before Fall 2: South Africa -- Last Late Prize 3: Chamberlain and Milner Go to War 4: Enter the Liberals 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High' 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 7: Unions, Women, and Unionists 8: On the Eve 9: The Threshold of the New 10: The Consequences of the Peace 11: A Rather Circumspect New World 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 13: The Old Familiar Faces 14: We Go into the Dark 15: The Sunlit Uplands-- almost 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 18: Invading Countries is Wrong Envoi Notes Index
Introduction: Early Days 1: Our Empire: Pride Before Fall 2: South Africa -- Last Late Prize 3: Chamberlain and Milner Go to War 4: Enter the Liberals 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High' 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 7: Unions, Women, and Unionists 8: On the Eve 9: The Threshold of the New 10: The Consequences of the Peace 11: A Rather Circumspect New World 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 13: The Old Familiar Faces 14: We Go into the Dark 15: The Sunlit Uplands-- almost 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 18: Invading Countries is Wrong Envoi Notes Index
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