87 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Red. First Printing, With This Title Last In List Of Books In Series (At Front). Book Has Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Spine Ends. Dj Complete, Clean, Slight Wear, Tiny Losses At Tips And Corners, Spine Just A Little Faded. Alfred Leslie Rowse Ch Frsl Fba Frhists (1903 ? 1997) Was A British Historian And Writer, Best Known For His Work On Elizabethan England And Books Relating To Cornwall. Born In Cornwall And Raised In Modest Circumstances, He Was Encouraged To Study For Oxford By Fellow-Cornishman Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. He Was Elected A Fellow Of All Souls College And Later Appointed Lecturer At Merton College. Rowse Was In Steady Demand As A Lecturer In North America. In The 1930S, He Stood Unsuccessfully For Parliament As A Labour Candidate, Though Later In Life He Became A Conservative. In His Later Years, Rowse Moved Increasingly Towards The Political Right, And Many Considered Him To Be Part Of The Tory Tradition By The Time He Died. One Of Rowse's Lifelong Themes In His Books And Articles Was His Condemnation Of The Conservative-Dominated National Government's Policy Of Appeasement Of Nazi Germany In The 1930S, And The Economic And Political Consequences For Great Britain Of Fighting A Second World War With Germany. He Also Criticised His Former Labour Party Colleagues ? Including George Lansbury, Kingsley Martin And Richard Crossman?For Endorsing Appeasement, Writing "Not One Of The Left Intellectuals Could Republish What They Wrote In The Thirties Without Revealing What Idiotic Judgments They Made About Events." Another Was His Horror At The Degradation Of Standards In Modern Society. Seller Inventory # 021520

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Title: Science and History: A New View of History

Publisher: W W Norton, New York

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine Book

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Jacket

Edition: First Edition

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