Effervescent Adventures with Britannia (eBook, ePUB)

Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain
Redaktion: Louis, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scholars - historians, political scientists, journalists, novelists, biographers and English literature specialists - to guide the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of British culture, history and politics. Together, they provide a unique insight into the pivotal themes - political, literary and cultural - which have shaped British state and society. The subjects covered include a new analysis of Jack the Ripper by Richard Davenport-Hines, a new appraisal of Harold Nicholson and Royal Biography by Jane Ridley and a new account of Evelyn Waugh in North America by Martin Stannard. In literature, Patrick French writes on V.S. Naipul; in history Andrew Lownie offers new perspectives on Guy Burgess and in politics Kenneth O. Morgan considers what will become of Britain after Brexit. Collectively, the chapters combine a rich mix of original ideas, historical and literary allusion, personality and anecdote, to provide an intellectual adventure into the mainsprings of modern British and international society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838608460
• Artikelnr.: 56609688

Autorenporträt

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include Imperialism at Bay (1976) The British Empire in the Middle East (1984), and Ends of British Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2001 he was President of the American Historical Association and in 2013 he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Authors Introduction Wm. Roger Louis 1 Jack the Ripper Richard
Davenport-Hines 2 George Bernard Shaw and Physical Culture John D. Fair 3
Evelyn Waugh in North America Martin Stannard 4 V. S. Naipaul and the
British Tradition in Biography Patrick French 5 Where Shall We Adventure?
Hayao Miyazaki Meets Robert Louis Stevenson Susan Napier 6 Newer Images of
Women and Men in the Interwar Decades Reba Soffer 7 Encyclopaedia
Britannica Joseph Epstein 8 Current American and British Newspapers
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. 9 The Anglo-American Special Relationship in
Intelligence John Prados 10 The Quest for Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess
Andrew Lownie 11 John Banville's The Untouchable Steven Isenberg 12 All
Souls College S. J. D. Green 13 Guglielmo Marconi and England Paul Kennedy
14 Harold Nicolson and Royal Biography Jane Ridley 15 Keeping an Eye on the
Present: Whig History of Science Steven Weinberg 16 Re-illustrating the
History of the British Empire Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes 17 Britain Is Your
Friend: Propaganda during the Second World War Rosemary Hill 18 Ernest
Bevin and Palestine: Bevingrads and Demonologies Wm. Roger Louis 19
Britain's Egyptian Allies and the Suez Crisis Barnaby Crowcroft 20
Limitless Violence in Palestine Caroline Elkins 21 Rudyard Kipling and Mrs.
Ewing Michael Holroyd 22 The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging? John
M. MacKenzie 23 The Falklands Conflict: A Worm's-Eye View Sarah Beaver 24
How to "Fix" a War: Tony Blair and Iraq Geoffrey Wheatcroft 25 Seeking a
Role: Britain after Brexit Kenneth O. Morgan 26 British Studies at the
University of Texas, 1975-2017