Umfang:
xiv, 442 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781784534738
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1784534730
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9781784534721
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1784534722
Inhalt:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Major General Charles Gordon / Richard Davenport-Hines -- 2.The Men Who Ruled Palestine / Bernard Wasserstein -- 3.Nancy Lambton / John Gurney -- 4.Siegfried Sassoon / Max Egremont -- 5.Bloomsbury's Memoir Club / Rosemary Hill -- 6.Dylan Thomas / Kurt Heinzelman -- 7.Philip Larkin / Joseph Epstein -- 8.Army Life / Keith Thomas -- 9.Gandhi / Perry Anderson -- 10.Paul Scott / Peter Green -- 11.Towards Freedom / Sucheta Mahajan -- 12.Reflections on Early Modern Ireland / Jane Ohlmeyer -- 13.Pleasures of the Poor / Nicholas Rogers -- 14.The Men Who Lost America / Andrew O'Shaughnessy -- 15.Genocide in Tasmania / Bernard Porter -- 16.Lost Expeditions, Lost Histories / Dane Kennedy -- 17.The Reform Club / Roger Billis -- 18.The British Monarchy and the Tsar / Jane Ridley -- 19.A Love Triangle: Woodrow Wilson, Colonel House, and the British / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- 20.Wales and the First World War / Kenneth O. Morgan --
Inhalt:
Note continued: 21.The United Nations and Colonial Independence / Thomas Meaney -- 22.South by Southwest: South Africa, South West Africa, and the Commonwealth / Molly McCullers -- 23.Lost Causeways: Oxford, Experts, and the Motor Age / William Whyte -- 24.Harold Macmillan / Ferdinand Mount -- 25.The Last Colonial War / David Ramsbotham -- 26.Blair and Bush / Michael Brenner -- 27.Well Played! An Architectural View of Sports / Richard Chary -- 28.The Scottish Question in British Politics / Archie Brown -- 29.British National Identity / Lawrence Goldman -- 30.Some Notes on the Americans / A. N. Duckham
Anmerkung:
"This book consists of a representative selection of lectures given to the British Studies seminar at the University of Texas at Austin. Most of the present lectures were delivered in the years 2013-15." -- p. [1]
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Includes bibliographical references
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
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Politik
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Kultur
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Geistesleben
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
Mehr zum Autor:
Louis, William Roger 1936-
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