| History, Religion, and Culture Contributor(s): Collini, Stefan (Editor), Whatmore, Richard (Editor), Young, Brian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521626382 ISBN-13: 9780521626385 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon??'s Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 941 |
| LCCN: 99042115 |
| Physical Information: 1.65" H x 6.32" W x 9.24" (2.35 lbs) 298 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community. |