Full Description
Assembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book takes the reader on an excursion through colonialism and Britain's role in the 20th century. It includes the personalities, politics and culture of the British Isles.
Contents
The significance of the frontier in British history, Linda Colley; the British revolution in America, Jack P. Greene; Queen Victoria's other island, Walter L. Arnstein; was it possible to be a good Catholic. a good Englishman, and a good historian? Reba Soffer; Henry James - the Victorian scene, R.W.B. Lewis; in praise of Kipling, Thomas Pinney; Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, S.P. Rosenbaum; beyond gossip - D.H. Lawrence's writing life, Mark Kinkead-Weekes; Orwell and the business of biography, Bernard Stansky; Mountbatten revisited, Philip Ziegler; myths about the approach to Indian independence, John Grigg; "a Victorian tory" - Churchill, the Americans, and self-determination, Warren F. Kimball; "that will depend on who writes the history? - Winston Churchill as his own historian, John Ramsden; British historians and the debate over the "postwar concensus", Paul Addison; our age revisited, Noel Annan; the rise and fall of party government in Britain and the United States, 1945-1996, Samuel W. Cell; from Africa to empire, Antony Hopkins; British and North American University Presses, Joanna Hitchcock; British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-1998.
