Making history now and then:discoveries, controversies, and explorations

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cannadine David, 1950-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
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?