| Description |
335 pages ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Pelican books |
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Pelican original |
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Pelican original.
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Pelican books.
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| Contents |
Fiction in history -- Tory history -- Cromwell and the historians -- Conquerors and profiteers -- Charles James Fox -- William Cobbett -- Macaulay and Carlyle -- Queen Victoria and the constitution -- Lord John Russell -- Genocide -- John Bright and the Crimean War -- Palmerston -- Dizzy -- Lord Salisbury -- Prelude to Fashoda: the question of the Upper Nile, 1894-5 -- Economic imperialism -- The Jameson raid -- The man in the cloth cap -- The Boer War -- 'Joe' at his Zenith -- The chief -- The Anglo-Russian Entente -- 'We want eight, and we won't wait' -- The use of monarchy -- A patriot for one Ireland -- Politics in the first world war -- Lloyd George: rise and fall -- Spam on a gold plate -- Unlucky find -- Daddy, what was Winston Churchill? -- Manchester |
| Analysis |
Great Britain ca 1750-ca 1965 |
| Notes |
"Most of these essays were first published in book form ... in the four volumes: From Napoleon to Stalin, 1950, Rumours of wars, 1952, Englishmen and others, 1956, and Politics in wartime, 1964." |
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Includes index |
| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824
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Great Britain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719
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| LC no. |
76383119 |
| ISBN |
0140218629 |
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