Titlebook: Making History Now and Then; Discoveries, Controv David Cannadine Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Recessional: Two Historians, the Sixties and Beyond,acing Strachey’s squibs and sarcasm with something altogether more solid and substantial. Even the early twentieth century was beginning to receive serious scrutiny, as public and private records were becoming available for the first time in large quantities. This was, in short, the decade when hist

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Epilogue: Making History, Then?,s, for during the same period, J.K. Rowling commenced and completed her world-conquering cycle of best-selling novels, starting with ., published in June 1997, and concluding with ., which appeared in July 2007. There seems no reason to suppose that either Blair or Rowling will reciprocate by relati

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Perspectives: One Hundred Years of History in Britain,d helped to establish in 1902 for ‘the promotion of historical, philosophical and philological studies’.. In the course of his long, varied and distinguished career, Viscount Bryce (he was ennobled in 1907) was a lawyer, journalist, historian, explorer, Liberal MP, cabinet minister, British Ambassad

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Monarchy: Crowns and Contexts, Thrones and Dominations,s with kings and queens, courts and coronations, art-patrons and palace-builders, flummery and mummery, because the whole glittering yet tawdry subject is at best elitist, and at worst boring. But throughout most of the human past, peoples, tribes, nations and empires have organized themselves, or h

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Economy: The Growth and Fluctuations of the Industrial Revolution,; and while one of these many past-and-present national conversations was about the history of parliament, another of them, which began considerably earlier, concerned the causes, the nature, the consequences, the meaning and the moral status of those events, inventions, transformations and developm