• Part I. Private Intellectual, 1900-45:
• 1. Bronte country--
• 2. Peterhouse and Princeton--
• 3. Love, marriage and 'the sex question'--
• 4. Thinking man's historian--
• 5. European civilisation and the Third Reich--
• 6. Wartime ambiguities-- Part II. Contours of an Original Mind:
• 7. Science--
• 8. God--
• 9. History-- Part III. Public Intellectual, 1945-79:
• 10. Height of his powers--
• 11. From history to historiography--
• 12. From diplomatic history to international relations--
• 13. From autumn to winter.
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Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and Christianity and History (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western culture has undergone an astonishing revaluation over the past twenty years. What has been left out of this reappraisal is the man himself. Yet the force of Butterfield's writings is weakened without some knowledge of the man behind them: his temperament, contexts and personal torments. Previous authors have been unable to supply a rounded portrait for lack of available material, particularly a dearth of sources for the crucial period before the outbreak of war in 1939. Michael Bentley's original, startling 2011 biography draws on sources never seen before. They enable him to present a new Butterfield, one deeply troubled by self-doubt, driven by an urgent sexuality and plagued by an unending tension between history, science and God in a mind as hard and cynical as it was loving and charitable.
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• Prelude: after the Whigs-- Part I. The Whig Legacy:
• 1. Constitution and nation--
• 2. Church and state--
• 3. Empire and war--
• 4. Ghosts and intimations-- Part II. Modernist Investments:
• 5. New historians, new histories--
• 6. The new eighteenth century--
• 7. Ideological environments--
• 8. Modernist method-- Coda: after the modernists.
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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.
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• Prelude: after the Whigs-- Part I. The Whig Legacy:
• 1. Constitution and nation--
• 2. Church and state--
• 3. Empire and war--
• 4. Ghosts and intimations-- Part II. Modernist Investments:
• 5. New historians, new histories--
• 6. The new eighteenth century--
• 7. Ideological environments--
• 8. Modernist method-- Coda: after the modernists.
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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, Michael Bentley reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers the first full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.
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• Introduction: situations vacant--
• 1. Time--
• 2. Space--
• 3. Society--
• 4. Property--
• 5. Thought--
• 6. The state--
• 7. The church--
• 8. The empire--
• 9. The party--
• 10. The legacy-- Note on sources.
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Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.
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• Introduction: situations vacant--
• 1. Time--
• 2. Space--
• 3. Society--
• 4. Property--
• 5. Thought--
• 6. The state--
• 7. The church--
• 8. The empire--
• 9. The party--
• 10. The legacy-- Note on sources.
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Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.
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• Introduction: situations vacant--
• 1. Time--
• 2. Space--
• 3. Society--
• 4. Property--
• 5. Thought--
• 6. The state--
• 7. The church--
• 8. The empire--
• 9. The party--
• 10. The legacy-- Note on sources.
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Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. This important study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain. At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury's World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics. Instead, it asks sensitive questions about how the political, intellectual and religious environments of the late Victorian period seemed to one of its sharpest intellects, and it situates Salisbury and his immediate entourage in a wide landscape of relationships, perceptions and problems. Professor Bentley takes the reader into Conservative assumptions about time and space, property and society, religion and the state, and the past and the future - the very language in which they expressed themselves.
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• 1. The Enlightenment
• 2. The Counter Enlightenment
• 3. Romanticism
• 4. Ranke
• 5. The Voice of Science
• 6. Culture and Kultur
• 7. The English "Whigs"
• 8. Towards a Historical Profession
• 9. Crisis over Method
• 10. From the New World
• 11. Annales: The French School
• 12. Repression and Exile
• 13. Post-war Moods
• 14. The History of the Present.
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Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era, from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys: the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment Romanticism the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World the Annales school in France Postmodernism. Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.
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• 1. The Enlightenment
• 2. The Counter Enlightenment
• 3. Romanticism
• 4. Ranke
• 5. The Voice of Science
• 6. Culture and Kultur
• 7. The English "Whigs"
• 8. Towards a Historical Profession
• 9. Crisis over Method
• 10. From the New World
• 11. Annales: The French School
• 12. Repression and Exile
• 13. Post-war Moods
• 14. The History of the Present.
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Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era, from James Boswell and Thomas Carlyle through to Lucien Febure and Eric Hobsbawm and surveys: the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment Romanticism the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World the Annales school in France Postmodernism. Modern Historiography provides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.
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• Acknowledgements-- Note on the text-- Introduction-- Part I. The Party Spirit:
• 1. Exhumation--
• 2. Ghosts in the machine--
• 3. Exorcism-- Part II. The Wider Liberalism:
• 4. Upper and nether millstones--
• 5. The Liberal intelligentsia-- Collect-- Notes-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This study is an exercise in the history of political perception and opinion. It broke new ground in considering the decline of Liberalism through the eyes of Liberals themselves. By concentrating on what Liberal politicians said to one another and to their audience (public and private) a picture is built up of the frame of mind in which those responsible for guiding Liberalism faced a worsening world after 1914. The coming of the First World War was a critical element in forming that frame of mind; and the frame of mind was itself critical in deciding the fate of Liberalism in the post-war years. What emerges from this study is the paradox that the Liberal mind was the greatest single obstacle in the way of a Liberal revival.
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• Introduction: the project of historiography, Michael Bentley, University of St Andrews-- Section One: Beginnings - East and West Introduction, Paul Cartledge, Clare College, Cambridge University-- 1.1 Asian Historiography: two traditions, David Morgan, School of African and Oriental Studies-- 1.2 Historiography and Greek self-definition, Paul Cartledge, Clare College, Cambridge-- 1.3 Re-reading the Roman historians, Michael Comber, St John's College, Oxford University-- 1.4 The historiography of rural labour, Jairus Banaji, St John's College, Oxford University-- 1.5 Towards late-antiquity, Peter Heather, University College, London-- Section Two: The Medieval World Introduction, Julia M.H. Smith-- 2.1 The historiography of the medieval state, Susan Reynolds-- 2.2 Saladin and the third crusade, Robert Irwin-- 2.3 Family and household, Janet Nelson, King's College, London-- 2.4 The medieval nobility, Timothy Reuter, Southampton University-- 2.5 Armies and warfare, Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota, USA-- 2.6 Popular religion, Peter Biller, York University-- Section Three: Early-Modern Historiography Introduction, G.E. Aylmer, St Peter's College, Oxford University-- 3.1 The idea of early modern history, Wolfgang Reinhard, Freiburg University, Germany-- 3.2 The scientific revolution, Stephen Pumfrey, Lancaster University-- 3.3 Intellectual history, D.R. Woolf, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada-- 3.4 The English Reformation, Patrick Collinson, Sheffield University-- 3.5 Popular Culture in the early-modern West, J. Sharpe, York University-- 3.6 Revisionism in Britain, Ronald Hutton, Bristol University-- Section Four: Reflecting on the Modern Age Introduction, Michael Bentley, St Andrews University-- I Revolution and Ideology 4.1 The French Revolution, Jacques Sole, University of Grenoble
• 4.2 The Soviet Revolution, Catherine Merridale, Bristol University-- 4.3 National Socialism in Germany, Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College, USA-- 4.4 Fascism and beyond in Italy, John Davis, Connecticut University, USA-- 4.5 Orientalism, Ulrike Freitag, School of Oriental and African Studies, London-- II Area Studies 4.6 China, Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College, USA-- 4.7 Japan, Alan Smith, Glasgow University-- 4.8 India, Chris Bayly, St Catherine's College, Cambridge-- 4.9 Africa, David Birmingham, Kent University-- 4.10 North America, Carl Degler, Stanford University, USA-- 4.11 Latin America, Alan Knight, St Antony's College, Oxford University-- Section Five: Contexts for the Writing of History I: Hinterlands 5.1 History and Philosophy, William Dray-- 5.2 History and Anthropology, Jordan Goodman, UMIST, Manchester-- 5.3 History and Archaeology, Guy Halsall, Birkbeck College, London-- 5.4 History of Art, Nigel Llewellyn, Sussex Univer.
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The Companion to Historiography represents an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history. The thematic structure of the Companion enables topics to be read selectively or sequentially . Key Features * A unique exploration of Western, Asian and Oriental historiography * Specialist contributions by distinguished academics from across the globe draw on the authority of working historians and leading experts in related disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology and archaeology * Original and profound insights into world history through an awareness of its past formulations and emerging patterns * Over forty-five far-ranging essays, exploring diverse subjects such as Roman history today, medieval nobility, revisionism and modern India * Detailed information is easily accessible through the use of the Companion 's extensive indexes and bibliographies.
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• Introduction Michael Bentley--
• 1. The friends of the constitution in Church and State, 1667-73 James Jones--
• 2. The Peterhouse Latitudinarians Richard Brent--
• 3. Religion and the social order: the case of Burke and Paine Ian Harris--
• 4. Religion in the Victorian novel Shirley Letwin--
• 5. Victorian historians and the larger hope Michael Bentley--
• 6. The Conservative Party and the Church of England, 1874-1902 Richard Shannon--
• 7. George Gilbert Scott Junior, 1837-97: 'the history of a narrow mind' David Watkin--
• 8. Frederick Temple on the Clerisy and the idea of a meritocracy Simon Green--
• 9. Faith and fellowship: the conservatism of John Buchan J. P. Parry--
• 10. Service: the public doctrine of the Conservative leadership, 1922-40 Philip Williamson--
• 11. Destiny and providence: the religion of Winston Churchill Paul Addison--
• 12. Liberal collectivism and the English Catholic hierarchy Sheila Lawlor--
• 13. Culture and community Roger Scruton--
• 14. Religion and public doctrine Peter Ghosh--
• 15. Public doctrine, private lives: the iconography of belief in a commercial society A. Boyd Hilton.
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Maurice Cowling's first two books appeared in 1963, the year in which he also became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. This volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Cowling calls 'public doctrine' in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing and his role as a major Cambridge figure. This varied group of essays helps to situate Cowling's work in its wider environment which will aid those who are coming to it for the first time or who are trying to make sense of its complex filiations. Above all, it seeks to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee, while offering something genuinely worthwhile to all readers interested in recent historical and current intellectual tendencies in England.
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