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Informationen zum Autor Robert Crowcroft completed his Ph.D. at the University of Leeds in 2007! and currently teaches in the School of History. He is the author of Attlee's War! forthcoming with I.B.Tauris! and has published several articles and essays! including 'The High PoliticsA" of Labour Party factionalism! 1950-55'! in Historical Research (2008). S. J. D. Green is Reader in Modern British History at the University of Leeds and fellow of All Souls College! Oxford. He is author of Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire c. 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press! 1996) and The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change c.1920-1960 (forthcoming! Cambridge University Press). Richard Whiting is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Leeds and author of The Labour Party and Taxation (Cambridge University Press! 2001). Klappentext Maurice Cowling was one of the most controversial historians and thinkers of the last 40 years and a key figure in modern British Conservatism. His work on intellectual and political history assaulted conventional understanding of the political process and challenged the liberal and secular ideas which have been so pervasive in modern Britain. Here! leading scholars disclose Cowling’s vision of British democracy and place it in its broader intellectual context. This book therefore provides a powerful multi-disciplinary explanation of Conservative thought about public life in modern Britain! and sheds light upon the interface between philosophy! politics! religion and British democracy. Maurice Cowling was one of the most controversial historians and thinkers and a key figure in modern British Conservatism. This book presents Cowling's vision of British democracy and places it in its broader intellectual context. Zusammenfassung Maurice Cowling was one of the most controversial historians and thinkers and a key figure in modern British Conservatism. This book presents Cowling's vision of British democracy and places it in its broader intellectual context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Robert Crowcroft, S.J.D. Green and Richard Whiting2. Maurice Cowling: A Short LifeJonathan ParryPART I: COWLING AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY3. Prospects for Cowling’s Philosophy of History: Subjectivity, Civility and EcclesiasticalityJames Alexander4. Cowling on Mill and LiberalismMichael Grenfell5. Oakeshott’s Influence on ColwingKenneth MinoguePART II: POLITICAL HISTORY, POLITICAL JOURNALSIM, POLITICS6. The ‘Neglect of High Politics’ and the Triumph of Political HistoryPhilip Williamson7. The New Labour History: A Cowlingite PerspectiveRobert Crowcroft8, Political Journalism since c.1960: The Impact of CowlingSir Peregrine WorsthornePART III: RELIGION IN THE AGE OF SECULARIZATION9. ‘As If Religion Mattered’: An Alternative Reading of English Intellectual History since c.1840S.J.D.Green10. The Protestant Mind of Maurice CowlingIan Harris11. Butterfield, Cowling and ReligionMichael BentleyConclusion...
