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Hace 2 días · I do not think – and I do not suggest in the book – that studying the debates around Greater Britain provides the key to unlocking the secrets of Victorian political thought, but I do argue that the debates are interesting in their own right, that they need to be reinterpreted, and that an analysis of the debates can serve as a case study to illustrate a more general claim about the ...
Hace 1 día · If Snow’s intellectual vision was shaped by post-war theories of Britain’s economic decline, so that he saw the future of Britain harnessed tightly to the success or failure of technological investment and scientific thinking, Leavis saw himself entrusted with Eliot’s sweeping Myth of The Modern Fall, the Declinist theory to ...
Hace 3 días · The historiography of the British Empire refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to develop a history of the British Empire. Historians and their ideas are the main focus here; specific lands and historical dates and episodes are covered in the article on the British Empire.
Hace 4 días · These major university libraries and national libraries and archives host important digital collections covering the history and culture of Great Britain.
Hace 4 días · Read. The next book you recommend to those who want to better understand British politics in 2024 is Peter Foster’s What Went Wrong with Brexit. Brexit has come and gone, but it still feels ever present in British political discourse. (This book is also available on the Bookstory website here .) It’s weird.
In the case of Britain, the attractions of Unionism for the English, Scots, and Welsh have been replaced over the past 50 years by a reassertion of national identity over state (British) identity. It is easy to find fault with a book that covers so much ground and which provides such historical and conceptual depth.
Hace 5 días · Spanning six distinct periods of British and Irish history, this book is the best way to discover how Britain was transformed under Norman rule, fought two world wars in the 20th century, and faced new economic challenges in the 21st century.
