History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750–1950 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521626390 ISBN 13: 9780521626392

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community.

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Book Description

These two volumes contain new essays by many of the leading scholars in modern British intellectual history, covering a wide range of topics and thinkers. They all draw upon new research, but are written in a clear, readable style that will make them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers.

Review

"The eleven chapters in the books are of high, indeed exemplary, quality..." Anglican and Episcopal History

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521626390
• ISBN 13: 9780521626392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Collini Stefan, Whatmore Richard, Young Brian