Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life since 1800 (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
Redaktion: Readman, Paul; Thomas, Geraint

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.
Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805434344
• Artikelnr.: 72274163

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Paul Readman and Geraint Thomas Part I: Writing Modern British
History Chapter 1. Parry Passu: Jonathan Parry in European Echo Michael
Bentley Chapter 2. G.M. Trevelyan, Landscape and the Writing of History in
England, c.1870-c.1950 Paul Readman Part II: Nation Chapter 3. The Image of
the Country House in Victorian Political Culture James Thompson Chapter 4.
Hugh de Sélincourt, The Cricket Match, and Englishness between the Wars
Matthew Cragoe Chapter 5. Nation and Union in the Career of David Lloyd
George Geraint Thomas Part III: Ideas Over Time: Narratives of Change
Chapter 6. Politics, Rhetoric, and the Serial Fluctuations of 'Small State'
Ideology in the Long Nineteenth Century and After Boyd Hilton Chapter 7.
The Socialist Lives of Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole Helen McCarthy
Chapter 8. 'Great Contemporaries' but Guarded Friends: Winston Churchill
and G.M. Trevelyan Revisited David Cannadine Chapter 9. What Happened to
Political Nonconformity? Philip Williamson Part IV: Institutions Chapter
10. Liberalism, the Law and Parliament in Modern British Politics Ben
Griffin Chapter 11. The Backbenchers of the Nineteenth-century Commons:
Activity and Accountability in the Age of Reform Kathryn Rix Chapter 12.
Lord Salisbury as Modern Political Man, c.1880-1902 Tom Crewe Chapter 13.
Edward the Caresser: Monarchy and Religion in the Reign of Edward VII
Michael Ledger-Lomas Part V: Britain in the World Chapter 14. Irish
Realities and British Liberal Self-deception: The Reaches and Limits of
British Liberal Constitutionalism John Bew and Paul Bew Chapter 15. Latin
America and British International Thought, 1880-1920 Alex Middleton
Chapter 16. Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: 'Liberal Education'
and Imperial Legacies, 1945-70 Susan D. Pennybacker Chapter 17. The Curious
Case of Wales's Statue to Henry Morton Stanley Joanna Lewis Jonathan Parry:
List of Publications Index Tabula Gratulatoria