Making History Now and Then Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

by Cannadine, David

• ISBN13: 9780230218895
• ISBN10: 023021889X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230594265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in the 20th century. They cover a series of key themes in British and imperial history: economy, parliament, monarchy, empire, heritage, and the construction of history itself. Most of the essays included here were produced during his decade-long association with the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and they are framed by his inaugural and valedictory lectures. The result is a remarkably coherent collection which demonstrates yet again why Cannadine is one of the most thoughtful, original, incisive and readable historians of our time.

Author Biography

DAVID CANNADINE is the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Prologue: Making History, Now!	p. 1
Perspectives: One Hundred Years of History in Britain	p. 19
Monarchy: Crowns and Contexts, Thrones and Dominations	p. 39
Parliament: Past History, Present History, Future History	p. 59
Economy: The Growth and Fluctuations of the Industrial Revolution	p. 83
Heritage: The Historic Environment in Historical Perspective	p. 112
Tradition: Inventing and Re-Inventing the 'Last Night of the Proms'	p. 135
Nation: British Politics, British History and British-ness	p. 171
Dominion: Britain's Imperial Past in Canada's Imperial Past	p. 196
Empire: Some Anglo-American Ironies and Challenges	p. 214
Recessional: Two Historians, the Sixties and Beyond	p. 235
Epilogue: Making History, Then?	p. 274
On Reviewing and Being Reviewed	p. 298
Acknowledgements	p. 307
Notes	p. 308
Index	p. 380
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