Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; Austin, Tex. : Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

x, 342 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"Resurgent Adventures with Britannia... draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers, and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history, and politics. They provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes, both political and cultural, which have shaped 20th century state and society. There is detailed consideration of the works of leading figures in art, literature, politics, and scholarship - including portraits of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Neal Ascherson, Nye Bevan by Kenneth O. Morgan, and Margaret Thatcher by Archie Brown - and how these stellar figures have been deeply affected by war, the imperial experience, decolonization, the enduring problems of the Middle East, Communism, the Cold War, and the British-America connections. And there are assessments by leading historians of statesmen, and episodes in global history, which have shaped the modern age. The result is a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality, and anecdote, which together provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society."--Publisher description.

Subject

• Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > Intellectual life

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Wm. Roger Louis -- Victorian gothic architecture / Bernard Porter -- Rudyard Kipling and America / Thomas Pinney -- French and British colonial heroes / Berny Sèbe -- Henry James and British power / Priscilla Roberts -- Virginia Woolf and Russian literature / Roberta Rubenstein -- General Henry Wilson, Ireland, and the Great War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- Somerset Maugham / Selina Hastings -- Olivia Manning / Phyllis Lassner -- Yale, Cambridge, and Julian Bell / Peter Stansky -- Lunching on Olympus / Steven Isenberg -- Maurice Bowra / Glen Bowersock -- Hugh Trevor-Roper / Neal Ascherson -- Nye Bevan / Kenneth O. Morgan -- The third man / Donna Kornhaber -- Harold Macmillan and the wind of change / Joanna Lewis -- The end of the Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese colonial empires / Crawford Young -- Life in the Zambian Copperbelt / John Berry -- Margaret Thatcher and the end of the Cold War / Archie Brown -- Invictus / Dan Jacobson -- The grand illusion / Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2011.

ISBN

• 9781780760575 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1780760574 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781780760582 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1780760582 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011936954

OCLC

751754141

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library