Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

Thomas, Geraint
Bentley, Michael
Readman, Paul

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1837650187
ISBN13: 9781837650187
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London.

Also in

British History

View All