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  • Twilight of the Dons

    British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism

    de Colin Kidd ...
    The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsiders, the dons of Oxbridge enjoyed secure and even cosy connections with those in power. In Twilight of ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Political Advice

    Past, Present and Future

    de Colin Kidd, Jacqueline Rose ...
    The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Literature and Union

    Scottish Texts, British Contexts

    Edición de Gerard Carruthers, Colin Kidd ...
    Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the relationship between literature and nationhood, yet almost none on the relationship between literature and unions. This volume introduces the insights of the new British history into mainstream Scottish literary ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

    de David Allan, Pam Perkins, Catherine Jones, Ruth Perry, Charles Bradford Bow, Colin Kidd, Corey E. Andrews, Sandro Jung, Deidre Dawson, Andrew Hook, Sarah Winter ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • The World of Mr Casaubon

    Britain's Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870

    de Colin Kidd ...
    Series Libro 115 - Ideas in Context
    The World of Mr Casaubon takes as its point of departure a fictional character - Mr Casaubon in George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. The author of an unfinished 'Key to All Mythologies', Casaubon has become an icon of obscurantism, irrelevance and futility. Crossing conventional disciplinary boundaries, Colin Kidd excavates Casaubon's hinterland, and illuminates the fierce ideological war ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Union and Unionisms

    Political Thought in Scotland, 1500–2000

    de Colin Kidd ...
    Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Colin Kidd demonstrates that unionism ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

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  • Stuart Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Morrill ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys pull apart. It gives a graphic account of the effects of a century-long period during which ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Social History of England, 1500–1750

    Edición de Keith Wrightson ...
    Series series A Social History of England
    The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Princeton History of Modern Ireland

    Edición de Richard Bourke, Ian McBride ...
    An accessible and innovative look at Irish history by some of today's most exciting historians of IrelandThis book brings together some of today's most exciting scholars of Irish history to chart the pivotal events in the history of modern Ireland while providing fresh perspectives on topics ranging from colonialism and nationalism to political violence, famine, emigration, and feminism.The ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics

    Irish Parties and Irish Politics from the 18th Century to Modern Times

    de Tom Garvin ...
    Professor Tom Garvin's classic work studies the growth of nationalism in Ireland from the middle of the eighteenth century to modern times. It traces the continuity of tradition from earlier organisations, such as the United Irishmen and the agrarian Ribbonmen of the eighteenth century, through the followers of Daniel O'Connell, the Fenians and the Land League in the nineteenth century to the ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life

    The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

    de David Malouf ...
    Series Libro 41 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is, and what makes it possible David Malouf returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

    de John Gibney ...
    A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first centuryFive centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland’s modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island nation’s cultural, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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