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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Feske, Victor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965.
Belloc, Hilaire, > 1870-1953.
Churchill, Winston S. > (Winston Spencer), > 1874-1965.
Belloc, Hilaire, > 1870-1953
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965
1900-1999
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Liberalism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Libéralisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY.
Historiography
Intellectual life
Liberalism
Politics and government
Geschichtsschreibung
Liberalismus
Geschiedschrijving.
Great Britain > Historiography > 20th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1901-1936.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Historiographie.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1901-1936.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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