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Author(s): David Cannadine
ISBN(s): 9780195219265, 0195219260
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 1.53 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198040997 
ISBN 13: 9780198040996
Author: David Cannadine

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.

In Churchill’s Shadow Confronting the Past in Modern Britain 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE: CHURCHILL IN HIS WORLD
1. Parliament: The Palace of Westminster as the Palace of Varieties
2. Statecraft: The Haunting Fear of National Decline
3. Thrones: Churchill and Monarchy in Britain and Beyond
4. Language: Churchill as the Voice of Destiny
PART TWO: POLITICS IN DIVERSE MODES
5. Locality: The ‘Chamberlain Tradition’ and Birmingham
6. Piety: Josiah Wedgwood and the History of Parliament
7. Emollience: Stanley Baldwin and Francis Brett Young
8. Diplomacy: G. M. Trevelyan and R. B. Merriman
PART THREE: VANISHING SUPREMACIES?
9. Tradition: Gilbert and Sullivan as a ‘National Institution’
10. Conservation: The National Trust and the National Heritage
11. Sentiment: Noël Coward’s Patriotic Ardour
12. Fantasy: Ian Fleming and the Realities of Escapism

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