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Author:   Wm. Roger Louis
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780755693313

ISBN 10:   0755693310
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Wm. Roger Louis, The University of Texas at Austin 1. How Churchill’s Mind Worked, Paul Addison, Oxford University 2. Éamon de Valera, Kevin Kenny, New York University 3. Calouste Gulbenkian: Mr. Five Percent, Richard Davenport-Hines, Oxford University 4. Lord Beaverbrook, Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham 5. Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill, Jeffrey Meyers, Biographer and literary, art and film critic 6. Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim, Robert King, University of Texas 7. Louis George Martin: Champion Weightlifter, John Fair, University of Texas 8. Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde, Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna and Oxford University 9. William Morris: Artist, Businessman, and Radical, Peter Stansky, Stanford University 10. Ida John: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Rosemary Hill, Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University 11. Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism, David Leal, University of Texas 12. P. G. Wodehouse, Joseph Epstein, Author of more than 25 books including The Ideal of Culture (2018) 13. Samuel Beckett and Surrealism, Alan Friedman, University of Texas 14. Harry Potter and Bloomsbury, Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing 15. A Battle for the Soul of Classics at Oxford, Paul Woodruff, University of Texas 16. Obedience by the Book, Al Martinich, University of Texas 17. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Elizabeth Baigent, Oxford University 18. The Problem with Monuments: A View from All Souls, Edward Mortimer, Oxford University 19. The Social History of the Raj, Max Hastings, Journalist and author of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 (2018) 20. Warnings from Versailles, 1919, Margaret Macmillan, Oxford University 21. The British Defense of Cyprus, 1941, George Kelling, Civilian Historian with the U.S Air Force 22. How the British Left Palestine, Bernard Wasserstein, Author of several books including The British in Palestine (1978) 23. America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Derek Leebaert, Author and a founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Army 24. Brexit: An Historical Romance, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Journalist and Historian 25. Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights, Philip Waller, Oxford University

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The main pleasure of a book like this is akin to that of listening to a series of assured after-dinner speakers, highly knowledgeable about their chosen subject and able to entertain as well as inform. * Alan Ross, Times Literary Supplement *

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The editor, Wm. Roger Louis, is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a past President of the American Historical Association. His books include Ends of British Imperialism (2006). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford History of the British Empire. In 2013, he was awarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2016 he delivered the Weizmann Memorial Lecture.

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