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History in Our Time

David CannadineProfessor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research David Cannadine

出版	Yale University Press, 1998-01-01
主題	History / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN	97803000770250300077025
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DUJwf1NjRJ0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

This work is a collection of writings by David Cannadine, an historical essayist. Cannadinene's subject is 19th and 20th-century Britain, from Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, King Edward VIII to Diana, Princess of Wales. The pieces included here explore subjects as varied as suicide and divorce, patriotism and empire, class and privacy, and they examine the cult of Victorian values as recently espoused and proclaimed by politicians and historians in Britain and America. Each of these essays evokes a personality or investigates a problem: the mysteries of class distinctions; the difficulties and dangers of being the Prince (or the Princess) of Wales, the malevolence of Lord Beaverbrook, the varied motives for imperial expansion, and the unhappiness of Harold Macmillan. They discuss (and sometimes dismiss) many of the most important - and notorious - works of history and biography to have been published during the last decade on both sides of the Atlantic.