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Author:

Collini, Stefan, 1947-

Title:

English pasts : essays in history and culture / Stefan Collini.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

viii, 348 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Nationalism--England--Historiography.
Nationalism--England--Historiography.
Great Britain--Historiography.
England--Historiography.--Historiography.
Great Britain--Historiography.
England--Historiography.--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-332) and index.

Contents:

Writing 'the national history': Trevelyan and after -- French contrasts: from the Panth©♭on to Poets' corner -- Idealizing England: ©œlie Hal©♭vy and Lewis Namier -- Speaking with authority: the historian as social critic -- Victorian values: from the Clapham sect to the Clapham omnibus -- High mind: John Stuart Mill -- Literary minds: Anthony Trollope and George Eliot -- Young Minds: Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell -- Moral mind: R.H. Tawney -- Liberal mind: Isaiah Berlin -- Critical minds: Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart -- Against Prodspeak: 'research' in the humanities --Grievance studies: how not to do cultural criticism -- Company histories: CamU PLC and SocAnth Ltd. -- With friends like these: John Carey and Noel Annan -- Before another tribunal: the idea of the 'non-specialist public'.

ISBN:

9780198207801
0198207808 (pb)
9780198207795
0198207794 (hb)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40113468

LCCN:

98047247

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)