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From Belloc to Churchill : private scholars, public culture, and the crisis of British liberalism, 1900-1939 /

Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J.L. and Barbara Hammond, G.M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feske, Victor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Liberalism and historiography
  • Hilaire Belloc The path not taken?
  • Sidney and Beatrice Webb A new form of public history
  • J.L. and Barbara Hammond A case of mistaken identity
  • George Macaulay Trevelyan The insider as outsider
  • Winston Churchill The last public historian
  • Conclusion: Putting Humpty Dumpty together again.