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More adventures with Britannia : personalities, politics, and culture in Britain /

Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Louis, William Roger, 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press : I.B. Tauris, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The significance of the frontier in British history / Linda Colley
  • The British revolution in America / Jack P. Greene
  • Queen Victoria's other island / Walter L. Arnstein
  • Was it possible to be a good Catholic, a good Englishman, and a good historian? / Reba Soffer
  • Henry James: the Victorian scene / R.W.B. Lewis
  • In praise of Kipling / Thomas Pinney
  • Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press / S.P. Rosenbaum
  • Beyond gossip: D.H. Lawrence's writing life / Mark Kinkead-Weekes
  • Orwell and the business of biography / Bernard Crick
  • Nineteen eighty-four ten years later / Peter Stansky
  • Mounbatten revisited / Philip Ziegler
  • Myths about the approach to Indian independence / John Grigg
  • "A Victorian tory": Churchill, the Americans, and self-determination / Warren F. Kimball
  • "That will depend on who writes history": Winston Churchill as his own historian / John Ramsden
  • British historians and the debate over the "postwar consensus" / Paul Addison
  • Our age revisited / Noel Annan
  • The rise and fall of party government in Britain and the United States, 1945-1996 / Samuel H. Beer
  • Who ran the British empire? / John W. Cell
  • From Africa to empire / Antony Hopkins
  • British and North American university presses / Joanna Hitchcock
  • British studies at the University of Texas, 1975-1998.