Modern Historians on British History 1485-1945 (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Bibliography 1945-1969

ISBN-13: 9780415573672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 252 str.

G.R. Elton

Opis

The twenty-five year period following the Second World War saw an enormous expansion of activity in the writing of the history of modern Britain, and with that expansion a major transformation of the state of knowledge in many parts of the area. First published in 1970, this Revivals reissue, which includes an extensive coverage of books and a reasonable selection of articles, endeavours both to survey the work done and to reduce it to some comprehensible order. It indicates achievements and probable lines of development, and collects the materials that have grown around the main controversies. Omitted are local history (in the main) and the history of empire and commonwealth, except where the latter really arises out of the affairs of the mother country. There are special sections on social history, the history of ideas, Scotland and Ireland.

Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat.

Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Works of Reference 3. Sources 4. General 5. The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) 6. The Seventeenth Century (1603-1714) 7. The Eighteenth Century (1714-1815) 8. The Nineteenth Century (1815-1914) 9. The Twentieth Century (1914-1945) 10. Social History 11. History of Ideas 12. Scotland 13. Ireland

O autorze

G.R. Elton