In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the a longa 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. The first articles deal with general issues of approach and interpretation, with Canada and the thirteen colonies, and with India and the empire of tea. The final essays illustrate Anglo-Indian relations and the tea trade, showing the relationship between the establishment of Indian tea plantations,...
In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published co...
The essays in this collection offer the path-breaking research of leading scholars to explore the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime world in this key period through a series of thematic discussions, comparing similar and contrasting movements and events.
The essays in this collection offer the path-breaking research of leading scholars to explore the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime ...
Collects twelve previously unpublished essays by one of Britain's most eminent historians, David Cannadine, including hisinaugural and valedictory lectures at the Institute of Historical Research. A unique volume discussing the study and nature of History itself and a range of key topics and periods in British and Imperial History."
Collects twelve previously unpublished essays by one of Britain's most eminent historians, David Cannadine, including hisinaugural and valedictory lec...
E.H. Carr's What is History?, first published in 1961, was the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. To commemorate the book's forthieth anniversary, David Cannadine has gathered an all-star cast of contributors to ask and seek answers to E.H. Carr's classic question for a new generation of historians: what does it mean to study history at the start of the twenty-first century? The contributors pose this question anew for the most important and lively subfields of history writing today. For example, Alice Kessler-Harris ponders "what is gender...
E.H. Carr's What is History?, first published in 1961, was the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. To co...
This title provides an impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognize the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine. The book is an agonized attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences - to create an 'us versus them'.
This title provides an impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognize the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Canna...
