Jonathan Locke Hart

The Words of Winston Churchill (eBook, ePUB)

Speeches 1933-1940

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs.The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000803853
• Artikelnr.: 66423874

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Locke Hart received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in English and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Hart is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of Academia Europea, and is Chair Professor, the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University. He is also Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. In recent years, he was Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University and Chair Professor of the School of Foreign Languages and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing, Literary Culture and Translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has written over twenty books and edited others and contributed book chapters. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard, and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Language and the Past as Prologue
3. Speaking and Writing
4. Rhetoric, Parliament, Marlborough and Randolph Churchill
5. Speech on South Africa, 18 February 1901
6. The First World War: Speeches, 7 August 1914 and 22 August 1916
7. Speeches after the Great War and in the 1920s, 18 March 1919, 23
February 1920 and 22 January 1929
8. Speech on India, 26 January 1931
9. Churchill's Speech on India on 26 January 1931 and the Response
10. Speech, the European Situation, 23 March 1933
11. Responses to Churchill's Speech on the European Situation, 23 March
1933
12. Epilogue
Index