Research Catalog

Title

Adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics and culture in Britain / edited by Wm. Roger Louis.

Publication

London : I.B. Tauris ; Austin, Texas : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Louis, William Roger, 1936-
• Louis, William Roger.
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Description

x, 342 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Includes material on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Scott, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Arnold Toynbee, John Maynard Keyes, F.R. Leavis, Wavell, Cyril Connolly, Neville Chamberlain, and Welsh nationalism.

Subject

• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain > Civilization
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain > Civilization > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The myth of T.E. Lawrence -- Paul Scott: novelist and historian -- Winston Churchill as historian -- The "special relationship" 1947-1952 -- Open and secret war 1938-1945 -- Personalities and appeasement -- Bertrand Russell's politics: 1688 or 1968? -- How liberal was John Stuart Mill? -- British post-war sterling crises -- The lure of the TLS -- "Drinking tea with treason": Halifax in India -- The interpretation of fairy tales: implications for literature, history, and anthropology -- Toynbee revisited -- Keynes and the United States -- F.R. Leavis and the "anthropologico-literacy" group: we were that Cambridge -- Wavell and the war in the Middle East 1940-1941 -- Reflections on strategic deception -- Who cares about Cyril Connolly? -- Chamberlain and appeasement -- British attitudes toward the Mexican revolution 1910-1940 -- Welsh nationalism -- British studies at the University of Texas 1975-1995.

ISBN

1860640028 :

LCCN

gb^96023799^

OCLC

• 34546412
• SCSB-12152853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library