Research Catalog

Title

History, religion, and culture : essays in British intellectual history, 1750-1950 / edited by Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, Brian Young.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Collini, Stefan, 1947-
• Whatmore, Richard.
• Young, B. W.

Description

viii, 289 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Great Britain > Civilization
• Great Britain > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Contents

General introduction / Stefan Collini -- Presentation of History, Religion, and Culture -- 1. Historical distance and the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain / Mark Salber Phillips -- 2. Gibbon and the primitive church / J. G. A. Pocock -- 3. Gibbon's religious characters / David Womersley -- 4. 'The Lust of Empire and Religious Hate': Christianity, history, and India, 1790-1820 / Brian Young -- 5. The Victorians and Oliver Cromwell / Blair Worden -- 6. Religion and politics in the Quarterly Review, 1809-1853 / William Thomas -- 7. Ruskin's way: tout a fait comme un oiseau / John Drury -- 8. The politics of anatomy and an anatomy of politics c.1825-1850 / Boyd Hilton -- 9. Images of time: from Carlylean Vulcanism to sedimentary gradualism / John Burrow -- 10. 'Race' and 'nation' in mid-Victorian thought / Peter Mandler -- 11. Political thought and national identity in Britain, 1850-1950 / Julia Stapleton.

ISBN

• 0521626382
• 0521626390 (pbk.)

LCCN

99042115

OCLC

• ocm42291284
• SCSB-13972542

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries