Research Catalog

Title

Yet more 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 Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

x, 419 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

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

Note

• "Selection of lectures given to the British Studies seminar at the University of Texas at Austin ... in the years 2003-05"--Page [1].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

"'Oo let 'em in?" : asylum seekers and terrorists in Britain, 1850-1914 / Bernard Porter -- The Pax Britannica, American hegemony, and the international order, 1793-2003 / Patrick O'Brien -- "In the advance guard" : Evelyn Waugh's reputation / Geoffrey Wheatcroft -- A time to dance : Anthony Powell's Dance to the music of time and the twentieth century in Britain / Ferdinand Mount -- Philip Larkin's "elements" / Dan Jacobson -- C.P. Snow, "the two cultures," and the "corridors of power" revisited / David Cannadine -- Frances Partridge : last of the Bloomsberries / Anne Chisholm -- A bolt from the blue? : the City of London and the outbreak of the First World War / Niall Ferguson -- Oh! what a lovely war : history and popular myths in late twentieth-century Britain / Brian Bond -- Alanbrooke : the birdwatcher who saved Britain / Alex Danchev -- The strange death of Puritan England, 1914-1945 / S.J.D. Green -- It didn't all start in the sixties / Katharine Whitehorn -- Herbert Butterfield : the historian as non-moralist / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Gallagher's empire / John Darwin -- The Balfour Declaration and its consequences / Avi Shlaim -- The "Wilsonian moment" in India and the crisis of empire in 1919 / Erez Manela -- Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1918-1972 / Deirdre McMahon -- British intellectuals and East Asia in the inter-war years / Antony Best -- Anglo-American "liberal" imperialism, British Guiana, 1953-64, and the world since September 11 / Richard Drayton -- Africa writes back : publishing the African writers series at Heinemann / James Currey -- "A bright shining Mecca" : British culture and political warfare in the Cold War and beyond / Scott Lucas -- British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2005.

ISBN

• 184511082X
• 9781845110826
• 1845110927
• 9781845110925

LCCN

2005921640

OCLC

• ocm61127238
• 61127238
• SCSB-14110176

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library