History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950

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Main Details

Title History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Stefan Collini
Edited by Richard Whatmore
Edited by Brian Young
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:298
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
ISBN/Barcode 9780521626385
ClassificationsDewey:941
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 1 May 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years, and these two tightly integrated volumes contain major new essays by almost all of its leading proponents. The contributors examine the history of British ideas over the past two centuries from a number of perspectives that together constitute a major new overview of the subject. History, Religion, and Culture begins with eighteenth-century historiography, especially Gibbon's Decline and Fall. It takes up different aspects of the place of religion in nineteenth-century cultural and political life, such as attitudes towards the native religions of India, the Victorian perception of Oliver Cromwell, and the religious sensibility of John Ruskin. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume explores relations between scientific ideas about change or development and assumptions about the nature and growth of the national community.

Reviews

'... to specialist historians of philosophy ... it will contribute to their understanding of the intellectual soil in which their primary concerns took root.' British Journal for the History of Philosophy '... does not disappoint.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History