Author: Allen Packwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110884023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill's life and legacy in a broader context. It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.
The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill
Author: Allen Packwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110884023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill's life and legacy in a broader context. It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110884023X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill's life and legacy in a broader context. It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin
Author: Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577687
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the implications of his thought for political theory, history, and the social sciences, as well as the ethical challenges confronting political actors, and the nature and importance of practical judgment for politics and scholarship. His name and work are inseparable from the revival of political philosophy and the analysis of political extremism and defense of democratic liberalism following World War II. Berlin was primarily an essayist who spoke through commentary on other authors and, while his own commitments and allegiances are clear enough, much in his thought remains controversial. Berlin's work constitutes an unsystematic and incomplete, but nevertheless sweeping and profound, defense of political, ethical, and intellectual humanism in an anti-humanistic age.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577687
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the implications of his thought for political theory, history, and the social sciences, as well as the ethical challenges confronting political actors, and the nature and importance of practical judgment for politics and scholarship. His name and work are inseparable from the revival of political philosophy and the analysis of political extremism and defense of democratic liberalism following World War II. Berlin was primarily an essayist who spoke through commentary on other authors and, while his own commitments and allegiances are clear enough, much in his thought remains controversial. Berlin's work constitutes an unsystematic and incomplete, but nevertheless sweeping and profound, defense of political, ethical, and intellectual humanism in an anti-humanistic age.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.
The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law
Author: Jan Klabbers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108698492
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law illuminates, from a legal perspective, what international organizations are, what makes them 'tick' and how they affect the world around them. It critically discusses such classic issues as the concept of international organization and membership, as well as questions of internal relations, accountability and how they make law, set standards and otherwise affect both their member states and the world around them. The volume further discusses the role of international organizations in particular policy domains, zooming in on domains which are not often discussed through international organizations, including disarmament, energy, food security and health. Eventually, a picture emerges of international organizations as complex phenomena engaging in all sorts of activities and relationships, the operation and authority of which is underpinned by the rules and regulations of international law.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108698492
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law illuminates, from a legal perspective, what international organizations are, what makes them 'tick' and how they affect the world around them. It critically discusses such classic issues as the concept of international organization and membership, as well as questions of internal relations, accountability and how they make law, set standards and otherwise affect both their member states and the world around them. The volume further discusses the role of international organizations in particular policy domains, zooming in on domains which are not often discussed through international organizations, including disarmament, energy, food security and health. Eventually, a picture emerges of international organizations as complex phenomena engaging in all sorts of activities and relationships, the operation and authority of which is underpinned by the rules and regulations of international law.
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1945-2010
Author: David James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110704023X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110704023X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
Author: Steven B. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521879027
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The volume provides a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521879027
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The volume provides a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Author: Santanu Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470080
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'
Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010152
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
Author: Crystal Parikh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481329
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481329
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Miracles
Author: Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899869
Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899869
Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description