Making history now and then:discoveries, controversies, and explorations
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, N.Y. |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 390 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230218895 (hbk.) 023021889X (hbk.) |
Index Number: | K561 |
CLC: | K561.4 |
Call Number: | K561.4/C224 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-379) and index. Prologue : making history, now! -- Perspectives : one hundred years of history in Britain -- Monarchy : crowns and contexts, thrones and dominations -- Parliament : past history, present history, future history -- Economy : the growth and fluctuations of the Industrial Revolution -- Heritage : the historic environment in historical perspective -- Tradition : inventing and re-inventing the 'last night of the Proms' -- Nation : British politics, British history and British-ness -- Dominion : Britain's imperial past in Canada's imperial past -- Empire : some Anglo-American ironies and challenges -- Recessional : two historians, the Sixties and beyond -- Epilogue : making history, then? |