History, religion, and culture : British intellectual history, 1750-1950 /
Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from...
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical distance and the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain / Mark Salber Phillips
- Gibbon and the primitive church / J.G.A. Pocock
- Gibbon's religious characters / David Womersley
- 'The lust of empire and religious hate': Christianity, history, and India, 1790-1820 / Brian Young
- The Victorians and Oliver Cromwell / Blair Worden
- Religion and politics in the Quarterly Review, 1809-1853 / William Thomas
- Ruskin's way: tout à fait comme un oiseau / John Drury
- The politics of anatomy and an anatomy of politics c. 1825-1850 / Boyd Hilton
- Images of time: from Carlylean Vulcanism to sedimentary gradualism / John Burrow
- 'Race' and 'nation' in mid-Victorian thought / Peter Mandler
- Political thought and national identity in Britain, 1850-1950 / Julia Stapleton.
