Serendipitous adventures with Britannia personalities, politics and culture in Britain
"Serendipitous 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 l...
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| Sprache: | English |
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London ; New York
I. B. Tauris
2019
Austin, Texas Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin 2019 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Adventures with Britannia
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Wm. Roger Louis
- How Churchill's Mind Worked / Paul Addison
- Éamon de Valera / Kevin Kenny
- Calouste Gulbenkian: Mr. Five Percent / Richard Davenport-Hines
- Lord Beaverbrook / Jane Ridley
- Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill / Jeffrey Meyers
- Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim / Robert King
- Louis George Martin: Champion Weightlifter / John Fair
- Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde / Sandra Mayer
- William Morris: Artist, Businessman, and Radical / Peter Stansky
- Ida John: Portrait of the Artist's Wife / Rosemary Hill
- Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism / David Leal
- P. G. Wodehouse / Joseph Epstein
- Samuel Beckett and Surrealism / Alan Friedman
- Harry Potter and Bloomsbury / Nigel Newton
- A Battle for the Soul of Classics at Oxford / Paul Woodruff
- Obedience by the Book / Al Martinich
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / Elizabeth Baigent
- The Problem with Monuments: A View from All Souls / Edward Mortimer
- The Social History of the Raj / Max Hastings
- Warnings from Versailles, 1919 / Margaret Macmillan
- The British Defense of Cyprus, 1941 / George Kelling
- How the British Left Palestine / Bernard Wasserstein
- America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957 / Derek Leebaert
- Brexit: An Historical Romance / Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights / Philip Waller