Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, N.Y. : In the United States and Canada, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan ; Austin, Tex. : Harry Ransom Center, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

x, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Civilization
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• Great Britain > Civilization > 20th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > 20th century
• Great Britain

Note

• 5th book in the series.
• "British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2007"--P. [325]-366.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Wm. Roger Louis -- Lloyd George, the French, and the Germans / Kenneth O. Morgan -- Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George / Susan Pedersen -- Changing shape of historical interpretation / Keith Thomas -- Kipling in South Africa / Dan Jacobson -- Tolkien in the First World War / Martin Gilbert -- Age of Auden / Grey Gowrie -- Air control and the British Idea of Arabia / Priya Satia -- Arthur Marder and the battles for British Naval history / Barry Gough -- Cecil Beaton's Wartime Art / Martin Francis -- England and India, 1939-1945 / Indivar Kamtekar -- Reassessing Paul Scott / Hilary Spurting -- Myth of malicious partition / Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: a great Englishman nonetheless / John Davis -- No-Man's-Land: C. Wright Mills in England / John Summers -- "Decline" as a weapon in cultural politics / Guy Ortolano -- Glance back at fifty years in the British book trade / Graham Greene -- Controversial portraits of Feliks Topolski / Larry Carver -- All Souls and Suez / Wm. Roger Louis -- Britannia's Mau Mau / John Lonsdale -- Empire in the twenty-first-century English imagination / Stephen Howe -- Break-up of Britain? Scotland and the end of empire / T.M. Devine -- Placing American empire in a British imperial perspective / Dane Kennedy -- Accidental criminal / Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2007.

ISBN

• 9781845116934
• 1845116933
• 9781845117115
• 1845117115

LCCN

2007933720

OCLC

• ocn176926030
• 176926030
• SCSB-14110083

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library