The Creighton Century, 1907–2007
Editat de David Bates, Jennifer Wallis, Jane Wintersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2022
The Creighton Century, 1907–2007 offers a selection of ten classic lectures on history from the first hundred years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series.
This volume offers a chance to revisit some of the great lectures of our time, including previously unpublished lectures by R. H. Tawney, Lucy Sutherland, Donald Coleman, Eric Hobsbawm, and Keith Thomas, published here with commentaries by Virginia Berridge, Justin Champion, Julian Hoppit, and Jinty Nelson, among others. This volume provides a fascinating insight into the development of the discipline of history over the twentieth and early twenty-first century, with lectures on the meaning of truth and modern mythologies, revealing some significant changes in approach and emphasis as well as some surprising continuities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781912702756
ISBN-10: 1912702754
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: University of London Press
Colecția University of London Press
ISBN-10: 1912702754
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: University of London Press
Colecția University of London Press
Notă biografică
David Bates is a historian of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. Jennifer Wallis is a historian of medicine and psychiatry at Imperial College London. Jane Winters is professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Cuprins
Introduction
David Bates
Preface
Jo Fox
The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907-2007
Robert Evans
The meaning of truth in history' (1913), with an introduction by Justin Champion
R. B. Haldane
A plea for the study of contemporary history' (1928), with an introduction by Martyn Rady
R. W. Seton-Watson
The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the Civil War [published as 'The rise of the gentry, 1558-1640] (1937), with an introduction by F. M. L. Thompson
R. H. Tawney
The City of London and the opposition to government, 1768-74, with an introduction by P. J. Marshall
Lucy Sutherland
The guns of Kaifeng-Fu: China's development of man's first chemical explosive (1979), with an introduction by Janet Hunter
Joseph Needham
The perception of the past in early modern England (1983), with an introduction by Ariel Hessayon
Keith Thomas
Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution (1989), with an introduction by Julian Hoppit
Donald Coleman
The uncertainties of isolation: Japan between the wars (1992), with an introduction by Antony Best
Ian Nish
The present as history: writing the history of one's own time (1993), with an introduction by Virginia Berridge
Eric Hobsbawm
The war against heresy in medieval Europe (2004), with an introduction by Jinty Nelson
R. I. Moore
David Bates
Preface
Jo Fox
The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907-2007
Robert Evans
The meaning of truth in history' (1913), with an introduction by Justin Champion
R. B. Haldane
A plea for the study of contemporary history' (1928), with an introduction by Martyn Rady
R. W. Seton-Watson
The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the Civil War [published as 'The rise of the gentry, 1558-1640] (1937), with an introduction by F. M. L. Thompson
R. H. Tawney
The City of London and the opposition to government, 1768-74, with an introduction by P. J. Marshall
Lucy Sutherland
The guns of Kaifeng-Fu: China's development of man's first chemical explosive (1979), with an introduction by Janet Hunter
Joseph Needham
The perception of the past in early modern England (1983), with an introduction by Ariel Hessayon
Keith Thomas
Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution (1989), with an introduction by Julian Hoppit
Donald Coleman
The uncertainties of isolation: Japan between the wars (1992), with an introduction by Antony Best
Ian Nish
The present as history: writing the history of one's own time (1993), with an introduction by Virginia Berridge
Eric Hobsbawm
The war against heresy in medieval Europe (2004), with an introduction by Jinty Nelson
R. I. Moore