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245 0 0 _aAdventures with Britannia :
_bpersonalities, politics and culture in Britain /
_cedited by Wm. Roger Louis.
250 _a1st University of Texas ed.
260 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c1996.
300 _ax, 342 p. ;
_c24 cm.;Pbk.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _a The myth of T.E. Lawrence -- Paul Scott: novelist and historian -- Winston Churchill as historian -- The "special relationship" 1947-1952 -- Open and secret war 1938-1945 -- Personalities and appeasement -- Bertrand Russell's politics: 1688 or 1968? -- How liberal was John Stuart Mill? -- British post-war sterling crises -- The lure of the TLS -- "Drinking tea with treason": Halifax in India -- The interpretation of fairy tales: implications for literature, history, and anthropology -- Toynbee revisited -- Keynes and the United States -- F.R. Leavis and the "anthropologico-literacy" group: we were that Cambridge -- Wavell and the war in the Middle East 1940-1941 -- Reflections on strategic deception -- Who cares about Cyril Connolly? -- Chamberlain and appeasement -- British attitudes toward the Mexican revolution 1910-1940 -- Welsh nationalism -- British studies at the University of Texas 1975-1995.
520 _aIncludes material on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Scott, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Arnold Toynbee, John Maynard Keyes, F.R. Leavis, Wavell, Cyril Connolly, Neville Chamberlain, and Welsh nationalism.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xPolitics and government
_y20th century.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xCivilization
_y20th century.
700 1 _aLouis, William Roger,
_d1936-
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/texas041/96169519.html
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