Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800

Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-83765-018-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.
Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson

Autoren/Hrsg.

Readman, Paul

Thomas, Geraint

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bentley, Michael

Bew, John

Cannadine, Sir David

Hilton, A J Boyd

Ledger-Lomas, Michael

Lewis, Joanna

McCarthy, Helen

Middleton, Alex

Pennybacker, Susan D.

Rix, Kathryn

Thompson, James

Williamson, Philip

Griffin, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Paul Readman and Geraint Thomas

Part I: Writing Modern British History
Chapter 1. Parry Passu: Jonathan Parry in European Echo
Michael Bentley
Chapter 2. G.M. Trevelyan, Landscape and the Writing of History in England, c.1870-c.1950
Paul Readman

Part II: Nation
Chapter 3. The Image of the Country House in Victorian Political Culture
James Thompson
Chapter 4. Hugh de Sélincourt, The Cricket Match, and Englishness between the Wars
Matthew Cragoe
Chapter 5. Nation and Union in the Career of David Lloyd George
Geraint Thomas

Part III: Ideas Over Time: Narratives of Change
Chapter 6. Politics, Rhetoric, and the Serial Fluctuations of 'Small State' Ideology in the Long Nineteenth Century and After
Boyd Hilton
Chapter 7. The Socialist Lives of Beatrice Webb and Margaret Cole
Helen McCarthy
Chapter 8. 'Great Contemporaries' but Guarded Friends: Winston Churchill and G.M. Trevelyan Revisited
David Cannadine
Chapter 9. What Happened to Political Nonconformity?
Philip Williamson

Part IV: Institutions
Chapter 10. Liberalism, the Law and Parliament in Modern British Politics
Ben Griffin
Chapter 11. The Backbenchers of the Nineteenth-century Commons: Activity and Accountability in the Age of Reform
Kathryn Rix
Chapter 12. Lord Salisbury as Modern Political Man, c.1880-1902
Tom Crewe
Chapter 13. Edward the Caresser: Monarchy and Religion in the Reign of Edward VII
Michael Ledger-Lomas

Part V: Britain in the World
Chapter 14. Irish Realities and British Liberal Self-deception: The Reaches and Limits of British Liberal Constitutionalism
John Bew and Paul Bew
Chapter 15. Latin America and British International Thought, 1880-1920
Alex Middleton
Chapter 16. Cambridge Beginnings, Oxford Departures: 'Liberal Education' and Imperial Legacies, 1945-70
Susan D. Pennybacker
Chapter 17. The Curious Case of Wales's Statue to Henry Morton Stanley
Joanna Lewis

Jonathan Parry: List of Publications
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

Über Autor(innen)

Readman, Paul
Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.

Middleton, Alex
Alex Middleton is Fellow in Modern British History at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Ledger-Lomas, Michael
Michael Ledger-Lomas is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and the author of Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Oxford, 2022).

McCarthy, Helen
Helen McCarthy is Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.

Bew, John
John Bew is Professor of History and Foreign Policy at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Thomas, Geraint
Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Williamson, Philip
PHILIP WILLIAMSON is Emeritus Professor of modern history at Durham University.

Griffin, Ben
Ben Griffin is Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Girton College.

Pennybacker, Susan D.
Susan D. Pennybacker is the Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Cannadine, Sir David
Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Oxford, and the General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Lewis, Joanna
Joanna Lewis is Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics, where she is also Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

Thompson, James
James Thompson is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Bristol

Rix, Kathryn
Kathryn Rix is the Assistant Editor of the House of Commons, 1832-1945 project at the History of Parliament.