Twentieth-Century Britain

Fred M. Leventhal

ISBN 10: 0820451088 / ISBN 13: 9780820451084

Published by Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002, 2002

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on the expertise of nearly two hundred prominent British, American, and Commonwealth scholars, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of twentieth-century Britain that will prove invaluable to students as well as general readers. The biographical and topical articles, each accompanied by a brief bibliography, cover a wide array of subjects from politics to the arts. Issues of gender and the impact of the two World Wars receive special emphasis. In contrast to the political focus of other guides, Twentieth-Century Britain gives comparable attention to literature, music, social currents, and family life, and also includes a chronology of significant events and a guide to further research. 640 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twentieth-Century Britain
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Nov 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820451088
• ISBN 13: 9780820451084
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 160H x 34D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 900 grams

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Synopsis

Drawing on the expertise of nearly two hundred prominent British, American, and Commonwealth scholars, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of twentieth-century Britain that will prove invaluable to students as well as general readers. The biographical and topical articles, each accompanied by a brief bibliography, cover a wide array of subjects from politics to the arts. Issues of gender and the impact of the two World Wars receive special emphasis. In contrast to the political focus of other guides, Twentieth-Century Britain gives comparable attention to literature, music, social currents, and family life, and also includes a chronology of significant events and a guide to further research.

About the Author

The Editor: Fred M. Leventhal, who received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from Harvard, is Professor of British History at Boston University. Among his many publications are Respectable Radical: George Howell and Victorian Working-Class Politics (1971), The Last Dissenter: H. N. Brailsford and His World (1985), and Arthur Henderson (1989). He is co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century British History and former President of the North American Conference on British Studies.