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Conservative revolutionary: The lives of Lewis Namier - Hardcover

Hayton, David

 
9780719086038: Conservative revolutionary: The lives of Lewis Namier
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719086035 ISBN 13: 9780719086038
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2019

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A biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose 'revolutionary' method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise.

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D. W. Hayton is a Visiting Professor in the School of English and History at Ulster University

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Acclaimed in the decade after the Second World War as England’s greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier’s revolutionary approach gave a new word to the English language: to Namierise. An eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman, today Namier is not only associated with a particular historical technique, but also with a way of understanding the world: a belief that the things that matter in society are the thoughts and actions of elites rather than the views of the population at large, and a view of politics in which issues are essentially unimportant, principles are a cloak for self-interest, and all who enter public life do so in pursuit of personal and material advantage. This exaggerated view has attained such a broad acceptance as to make him a hero to social and political conservatives, and a demonic figure to those on the left. Preoccupied by nationalism, empire, and human motivation, Namier also remains a point of reference in academic circles as the man who supposedly declared that in political discourse any reliance upon ideas was nothing more than ‘flapdoodle’.
The first book to integrate all aspects of Namier’s life and writings, this biography is based on a vast range of documentary sources, including entirely new archival material. A key figure in the Zionist movement, Namier played a significant part in public affairs and held a role in the Foreign Office in the First World War, and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719086035
ISBN 13 
9780719086038
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
472
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