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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feske, Victor. From Belloc to Churchill. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996 (OCoLC)605007000 |
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| Named Person: | Winston Churchill; Hilaire Belloc; Winston S Churchill; Winston Churchill, Sir; Hilaire Belloc |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Victor Feske |
| ISBN: | 0807822957 9780807822951 0807846015 9780807846018 |
| OCLC Number: | 34283104 |
| Description: | xii, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Liberalism and historiography -- Hilaire Belloc The path not taken? -- Sidney and Beatrice Webb A new form of public history -- J.L. and Barbara Hammond A case of mistaken identity -- George Macaulay Trevelyan The insider as outsider -- Winston Churchill The last public historian -- Conclusion: Putting Humpty Dumpty together again. |
| Responsibility: | Victor Feske. |
Abstract:
Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J. L. and Barbara Hammond, G. M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast the nineteenth-century interpretation of British history at a time when both the nature of historical writing and the fortunes of Liberalism had begun to change. Before 1900, amateur historians writing for a wide public readership portrayed British history as a grand story of progress achieved through constitutional development. This "Whig" interpretation had become the cornerstone of Liberal party politics. But the decline of Liberalism as a political force after the turn of the century, coupled with the rise of professional history written by academics and based on archival research, inspired change among a new generation of Liberal historians. The result was a refashioned Whig historiography, stripped of overt connections to contemporary political Liberalism, that attempted to preserve the general outlines of the traditional Whiggist narrative within the context of a broad history of consensus. This new formulation, says Feske, was more suited to the intellectual and political climate of the twentieth century. - Publisher.
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- Great Britain -- Historiography -- History -- 20th century.
- Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936.
- Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
- Belloc, Hilaire, -- 1870-1953.
- Churchill, Winston S. -- (Winston Spencer), -- 1874-1965.
- Geschiedschrijving.
- Churchill, Winston, -- Sir, -- 1874-1965.
- Historiographie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Libéralisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Historiographie.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1901-1936.
- Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle.
- Geschichtsschreibung.
- Liberalismus.
- Großbritannien.
