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, in the years since Edward Pearce has 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, with intermittent appearances as a theatre critic throughout. 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 has increasingly turned to history writing, with biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and Pitt the Elder and, most recently, Reform!: The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act (2010).
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Introduction Early Days 1: Our Empire 1896-1899 2: South Africa - Last, Late Prize 1899-1900 3: Chamberlain and Milner at War 1901-1905 4: Enter the Liberals 1905-1908 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High in Uniform' 1909-1910 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 1911 7: Wales, Women, and Balkan War 1912-1913 8: On the Eve 1913-1914 9: The Threshold of the New 1919-1921 10: The Consequences of the Peace 1921-1922 11: The Rather Circumspect New World 1922-1925 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 1926-1930 13: The Old Familiar Faces 1930-1935 14: We go into the Dark 1935-1940 15: The Sunlit Uplands Almost 1945-1949 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 1949-1951 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 1951-1955 18: Invading Countries is Wrong 1955-1956 Envoi
Introduction Early Days 1: Our Empire 1896-1899 2: South Africa - Last, Late Prize 1899-1900 3: Chamberlain and Milner at War 1901-1905 4: Enter the Liberals 1905-1908 5: 'The Whole University Marching Down the High in Uniform' 1909-1910 6: Mourning their Lordships, Worrying about Women 1911 7: Wales, Women, and Balkan War 1912-1913 8: On the Eve 1913-1914 9: The Threshold of the New 1919-1921 10: The Consequences of the Peace 1921-1922 11: The Rather Circumspect New World 1922-1925 12: Imperial Fatigue and New Clouds 1926-1930 13: The Old Familiar Faces 1930-1935 14: We go into the Dark 1935-1940 15: The Sunlit Uplands Almost 1945-1949 16: All Sorts of Dangerous Modern Ideas 1949-1951 17: The Old Order Not Changing Very Much 1951-1955 18: Invading Countries is Wrong 1955-1956 Envoi
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