Our Shadowed Present - Couverture souple

Clark, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843541238 ISBN 13 : 9781843541233

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2004

Synopsis

'An excoricating and enormously satisfying assault on historical postmodernism.' New Statesman Books of the Year 2003

At a time of resurgent popular interest in history, Jonathan Clark's new book is a landmark defence of traditional values.He argues that our sense of tradition and community, and even our morality is being destroyed.
In a series of original and incisive chapters on, among other things, Anglo-American relations, the decline of the United Kingdom as a entity and the absence of English nationalism, Clark argues for an alternative to an apparently liberal attitude to morality and politics and a dedication to the present, based instead upon a clear recognition of the value of the past. An important and timely book in which a distinguished historian attacks - vigorously, brilliantly and elegantly - Britain's loss of tradition.'The exhilarating point about Clark is that there is never an "end" to anything. His history offers insights as it churns through time, but all conclusions always need looking at afresh from generation to generation... Clark never ceases striving to amaze... one of the sparkiest British questioners on the scene. ' Peter Preston, Guardian

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J.C.D Clark is Hall Distinguisshed Professor of British History at the Universtiy of Kansas; he was formerly a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambrdige and of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicargo. His books include The Dynamics of Change; Revolution and Rebellion; English Society (now in a seond edition as English Society 1660-1832); The Language of Liberty 1660-1832 and Samuel johnson; he has editied Lord Waldergrave's Memoirs; Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain; Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and, jointly, Samuel Johnson in Historical Context. Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History was published by Atlantic Book in 2004.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843541238
• ISBN 13: 9781843541233
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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