Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 308 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300077025
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0300157452
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9780300077025
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9780300157451
Content:
"Cannadine's subject is nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain ... [with] subjects as varied as suicide and divorce, patriotism and empire, class and privacy, and ... 'Victorian values.'"--Jacket
Content:
pt. 1. Royals in toils. Family monarchy -- Midas monarchy -- Constitutional monarchy -- Welfare monarchy -- Mrs. Jordan -- Queen Victoria -- King Edward VIII -- King George VI -- The Prince of Wales -- Diana, Princess of Wales -- pt. 2. Hindsight's insights. Patriotism -- Privacy -- Divorce -- Suicide -- Victorians -- Empire -- Britons -- Intellectuals -- Class -- Morals -- pt. 3. Persons and personalities. Florence Nightingale -- Cecil Rhodes -- Winston Churchill -- John Buchan -- Lord Beaverbrook -- Harold Macmillan -- Sir Oswald Mosley -- Robert Boothby -- A.J.P. Taylor -- Margaret Thatcher
Note:
Collection of essays previously published, 1988-1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cannadine, David, 1950- History in our time New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biography
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