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Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul Readman (Editor), Geraint Thomas (Editor), Michael Bentley (Contribution by)Publish date:2024-10-15Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Boydell PressISBN-13:9781837650187ISBN-10:1837650187UPC:9781837650187Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Political ProcessBook Topic:Great Britain, 19th Century, Political PartiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SC3TM5XA8R
Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.
Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.

Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson
Language:EnglishPublisher:Boydell PressISBN-13:9781837650187ISBN-10:1837650187UPC:9781837650187Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Political ProcessBook Topic:Great Britain, 19th Century, Political PartiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SC3TM5XA8R
Publisher: Boydell Press

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