Britain since 1900: a success story?
by Skidelsky, Robert 1939-.
Material type: BookSeries: Vintage history of Britain 6.Publisher: Vintage Books 2014ISBN: 9780099572398; 0099572397.Classification number: 941 SKISubject(s): Great Britain -- History -- 20th centurySubject: History, like the present, is always changing. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. In the final volume of this history of Britian, Robert Skidelsky takes on the question: how successful was Britiain in the twentiethItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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History, like the present, is always changing. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. In the final volume of this history of Britian, Robert Skidelsky takes on the question: how successful was Britiain in the twentieth
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