Synopses & Reviews
Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history. From British personalities, politics, and culture, to Britain's interaction with other societies, the subjects are wide-ranging and sometimes surprising. Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the first World War; Avi Shlaim reasseses the Balfour Declaration; Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes about Evelyn Waugh; David Cannadine revisits C.P. Snow's Two Cultures; and much more.
About the Author
Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas, Austin, and a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Table of Contents
"'Oo Let 'Em In?" Asylum Seekers and Terrorists in Britain, 1850-1914--Bernard Porter * The Pax Britannica, American Hegemony. and the International Order, 1793-2003-- Patrick O'Brien * "In the Advanced Guard": Evelyn Waugh's Reputation Today--Geoffrey Wheatcroft * A Time to Dance: Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time--Ferdinand Mount * Philip Larkin's
Elements--Dan Jacobson * C. P. Snow, the
Two Cultures, and the
Corridors of Power: Revisited--David Cannadine * Frances Partridge: The Last of the Bloomsberries--Anne Chisholm * Origins of the Great War--Niall Ferguson * Oh! What a Lovely War! History and Popular Myths in Late-Twentieth Century Britain--Brian Bond * Alanbrooke: The Birdwatcher who Saved England-- Alex Danchev * The Strange Death of Puritan England--Simon Green * The Wilsonian Moment in India and the Crisis of Empire in 1919--Erez Manela * British Intellectuals and the Far East--Anthony Best * Gallagher's Empire--John Darwin *
The Balfour Declaration and its Consequences--Avi Shlaim * The British in Calcutta--David Washbrook * British Guiana, American Imperialism, and the Crisis of Independence--Richard Drayton * "The Regeneration of the Nation": Ireland in the 1930s--Deidre McMahon * It Didn't All Start in the Sixties--Katharine Whitehorn * "A Bright Shining Mecca": British Culture and Political Warfare in the Cold War and Beyond--Scott Lucas