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Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.
List of contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Wm. Roger Louis
1 Prince Albert
Rosemary Hill
2 One Man's Raj
John Spurling
3 The Economist
Aram Bakshian
4 English Historical Review
George Bernard
5 MR and the BBC
Andrew Roberts
6 David Astor and the Observer
Jeremy Lewis
7 John Keats
Ferdinand Mount
8 Robert Graves
Tom Palaima
9 Ivy Compton-Burnett
Richard Davenport-Hines
10 Dan Jacobson
Geoffrey Davis
11 Bloomsbury Reassessed
Paul Levy
12 Carrington Revisited
Anne Chisholm
13 Anthony Trollope
Albert Beveridge
14 Edmund Gosse and J. R. Ackerley
Steven Isenberg
15 Father
Brian Urquhart
16 Sherlock Holmes
David Leal
17 Tarzan
Christopher Benfey
18 Harry Potter
Susan Napier
19 The Black Hole of Calcutta
David Washbrook
20 Prisons
David Ramsbotham
21 Britain and Japan
Sheldon Garson
22 A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper
Adam Sisman
23 Mrs. Thatcher
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
24 The Historians and Margaret Thatcher
Brian Harrison
25 Tony Benn
Jad Adams
26 Elizabeth II
Max Hastings
27 The Breakup of Britain
Linda Colley
28 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2013
About the author
Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. His books include
Imperialism at Bay (1976)
The British Empire in the Middle East (1984), and
Ends of British Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2001 he was President of the American Historical Association an in 2013 he was awarded the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature.
Summary
Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis's stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia.
