Conservative Revolutionary
The Lives of Lewis Namier
Seiten
2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-8603-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-8603-8 (ISBN)
A biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise. -- .
Acclaimed after the Second World War as England’s greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill. Today, Namier is associated with the belief that the thoughts and actions of elites matter most, and with a view of politics in which those who enter public life do so only in pursuit of personal and material advantage. This exaggerated view has made him a hero to social and political conservatives, and a demonic figure to the Left. Preoccupied by nationalism, empire, and human motivation, Namier also remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than ‘flapdoodle’. The first biography of Namier in over thirty years, this book is based on a vast range of sources, including rich new archival material. -- .
Acclaimed after the Second World War as England’s greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill. Today, Namier is associated with the belief that the thoughts and actions of elites matter most, and with a view of politics in which those who enter public life do so only in pursuit of personal and material advantage. This exaggerated view has made him a hero to social and political conservatives, and a demonic figure to the Left. Preoccupied by nationalism, empire, and human motivation, Namier also remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than ‘flapdoodle’. The first biography of Namier in over thirty years, this book is based on a vast range of sources, including rich new archival material. -- .
D. W. Hayton is a Visiting Professor in the School of English and History at Ulster University -- .
Prologue: In search of Namier
1 Avenues of history: the child and the man, 1888–1913
2 Personalities and powers, 1913–1917
3 Facing east, 1917–1920
4 In the margin of history,1920–1928
5 Skyscrapers, 1928–32
6 Europe in decay, 1932–8
7 In the Nazi era, 1938–47
8 Crossroads of power, 1947–56
9 Conflicts, 1956–60
10 Vanished supremacies: Namier in retrospect
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 903 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-8603-5 / 0719086035 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-8603-8 / 9780719086038 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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