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In Churchill's Shadow - Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
by David Cannadine
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Oxford University Press, Great Britain, 2004. Softcover. Very Good Condition. With In Churchill's Shadow, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant orations during the crisis of World War II, Cannadine shows that for most of his career Churchill's love of rhetoric was his own worst enemy. Cannadine turns an equally insightful gaze on the institutions and individuals that embodied the image of Britain in this period: Gilbert & Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, the National Trust, and the Palace of Westminster itself, the home and symbol of Britain's parliamentary government. This superb volume offers a wry, sympathetic, yet penetrating look at how national identity evolved in the era of the waning of an empire. 385 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; ISBN: 019517156X. ISBN/EAN: 9780195171563. Inventory No: 269362.. 9780195171563
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- Title
- In Churchill's Shadow - Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
- Author
- David Cannadine
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 019517156X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195171563
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 2004
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- BZDB43 History; History; Unbranded ISBN: 019517156X EAN: 9780195171563 David Cannadine In Churchill's Shadow - Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
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