Ultimate Adventures with Britannia de Roger Louis

Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

Roger Louis

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2009

The latest volume in Wm. Roger Louis' acclaimed "Adventures with Britannia" series takes the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" deals with a rich variety of themes - some familiar, many unexpected. The scope of this wide-ranging volume includes not only the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, but also the interaction between British and other societies throughout the world. The chapters embracing historical themes include Brian Harrison and Dominic Sandbrook on the 1960s and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Churchill and the Jews. In Britannia's literary domain, Dan Jacobson assesses Thomas Hardy and T.S. Eliot while Margaret Macmillan asks how well Paul Scott's Raj Quartet bears up after some four decades. And in a combination of cultural, architectural and intellectual history, Bernard Wasserstein traces the decline and possible revival of the 'second city in the Empire', Glasgow."Ultimate Adventures with Britannia" retains all the intellectual originality and accessibility that characterise the earlier volumes in this series and continues a stimulating and highly appealing tradition.

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Wm Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include Imperialism at Bay, The British Empire in the Middle East and, most recently, Ends of British Imperialism (I.B. Tauris). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire.

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List of Authors Introduction Wm. Roger Louis1 Glasgow in the 1950s Bernard Wasserstein2 Historiographical Hazards of Sixties Britain Brian Harrison3 Against the Permissive Society: The Backlashof the Late 1960s Dominic Sandbrook4 Trevor-Roper's Scotland Roy Foster5 Chatham House and All That Roger Morgan6 The Study of International Relations in HistoricalPerspective Adam Roberts7 Balthazar Solvyns and Eighteenth-Century Calcutta Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.8 John Frederick Lewis and Nineteenth-Century Cairo Caroline Williams9 Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Richard Jenkyns10 Eliot versus Hardy Dan JacobsonS5188.indb v 8/26/09 1:05:56 PM11 Such, Such Was Eric Blair Julian Barnes12 Drink and the Old Devil Peter Green13 Elegy for an Empire: Paul Scott's Raj Quartet Margaret MacMillan14 Churchill's Zionism Geoffrey Wheatcroft15 Julian Amery: The Ultimate Imperial Adventurer Sue Onslow16 Colonial Independence David Cannadine17 The Failure of the West Indies Federation Jason Parker18 W. K. Hancock and the Question of Race Saul Dubow19 Historians of the British Empire, plus 100 Top Hits of Imperial History John Darwin20 Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq Shareen Brysac21 The Aftermath of the 1958 Revolution in Iraq Roby Barrett22 Comparing British and American 'Empires' A. G. Hopkins23 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2009