Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

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Collects twelve previously unpublished essays by one of Britain's most eminent historians, David Cannadine, including his inaugural and valedictory lectures at the Institute of Historical Research. A unique volume discussing the study and nature of History itself and a range of key topics and periods in British and Imperial History.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Inaugural: Making History Now!
• Perspectives: One Hundred Years of Doing History in Britain
• Monarchy: Crowns and Contexts, Thrones and Dominations
• Parliament: Past History, Present History and Future History
• Economy: The Growth and Fluctuations of the Industrial Revolution
• Heritage: The Historic Environment in Historical Perspective
• Tradition: Inventing and Re-Inventing the 'Last Night of the Proms'
• Nation: British Politics, British History and British-ness
• Dominion: Britain's Imperial Past in Canada's Imperial Past
• Empire: Some Anglo-American Ironies and Challenges
• Recessional: Two Historians, the Sixties and Beyond
• Valedictory: Making History, Then?
• Appendix: On Reviewing and Being Reviewed