The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs: Images, Problems, Standpoints and Forecasts |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 74
Page vii
... Gilberto Freyre and the Study of Social History 272 IV LOOKING FORWARDS 14 Towards 1900 : The Nineteenth Century Faces the Future 291 15 The Historian and the Future 310 Index 318 List of Illustrations The Originals A version of ' Writers.
... Gilberto Freyre and the Study of Social History 272 IV LOOKING FORWARDS 14 Towards 1900 : The Nineteenth Century Faces the Future 291 15 The Historian and the Future 310 Index 318 List of Illustrations The Originals A version of ' Writers.
Page xiii
... historians but is still not generally appreciated . From being at best one ( among many ) relatively neglected and often trivialised sub - branches of history , usually bracketed ( at its most serious ) with economic history , social ...
... historians but is still not generally appreciated . From being at best one ( among many ) relatively neglected and often trivialised sub - branches of history , usually bracketed ( at its most serious ) with economic history , social ...
Page xiv
... historian tout court . Having once produced a History of Birmingham and the bundle of articles which preceded it or ... historians , beginning with Professor S. E. Finer's readable and scholarly Life of Chadwick , much of it highly ...
... historian tout court . Having once produced a History of Birmingham and the bundle of articles which preceded it or ... historians , beginning with Professor S. E. Finer's readable and scholarly Life of Chadwick , much of it highly ...
Page xv
... historian should be concerned both with the ' social sciences ' ( not least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the gulf between writing in the ' social sciences ' and ' literature ' is as wide as the ' two - cultures ' gulf ...
... historian should be concerned both with the ' social sciences ' ( not least demography ) and with literature , sensing that the gulf between writing in the ' social sciences ' and ' literature ' is as wide as the ' two - cultures ' gulf ...
Page xvi
... historian with whom I have felt a close affinity , although not a political one . I have written introductions , too ... historians . The word ' com- mon ' can relate either to the experience of a whole society or culture , or to social ...
... historian with whom I have felt a close affinity , although not a political one . I have written introductions , too ... historians . The word ' com- mon ' can relate either to the experience of a whole society or culture , or to social ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American appeared Bill Britain British Brontė Carlyle Chadwick Chapter Charles Dickens Charlotte Chartists cholera outbreak common concerned Conquest contrast Corn Law critics culture death described Dickens disease E. A. Freeman Ebenezer Elliott economic Edwin Chadwick Elliott England English epidemic Freeman Freyre future futurologists G.M. Trevelyan George Eliot historians ibid idea individual industrial influence interest J. A. Hobson Labour Last Essays later lecture legislation Letters Liberal literature living London Luddites Lydgate Middlemarch Morris never nineteenth century Norman Norman Conquest Norman yoke North America noted novel Paris particular past poetry political economy Poor Law popular Portrait public health Quoted reform relation Review revolution Ruskin sanitary Saxon sense Shirley social history socialist society story theme thought town Trevelyan Trollope Trollope's twentieth century urban Victorian welfare West Indies Whig William writing wrote Young