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050 00 $aDA566.2$b.R63 1993
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100 1 $aRobbins, Keith.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81114317
245 10 $aHistory, religion, and identity in modern Britain /$cKeith Robbins.
260 $aLondon ;$aRio Grande, Ohio :$bHambledon Press,$c1993.
263 $a9307
300 $axi, 301 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aA collection of essays which originally appeared in journals over the past 25 years.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. History, the Historical Association and the National Past -- 2. History, Historians and Twentieth-Century British Public Life -- 3. National Identity and History: Past, Present and Future -- 4. Insular Outsider? 'British History' and European Integration -- 5. Images of the Foreigner in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain -- 6. Institutions and Illusions: The Dilemma of the Modern Ecclesiastical Historian -- 7. Religion and Identity in Modern British History -- 8. On Prophecy and Politics: Some Pragmatic Reflexions -- 9. The Churches in Edwardian Society -- 10. The Spiritual Pilgrimage of the Rev. R. J. Campbell -- 11. Free Churchmen and the Twenty Years' Crisis -- 12. Martin Niemoller, the German Church Struggle and English Opinion -- 13. Church and Politics: Dorothy Buxton and the German Church Struggle -- 14. Britain, 1940 and 'Christian Civilization' -- 15. Prime Ministers and Primates: Reflexions on their Twentieth-Century Relationship.
505 0 $a16. State and Nation in the United Kingdom since 1945 -- 17. Core and Periphery in Modern British History -- 18. Varieties of Britishness -- 19. Wales and the Scottish Connexion -- 20. 'This Grubby Wreck of Old Glories': The United Kingdom and the End of the British Empire.
520 $aThe twentieth century has not been kind to Britain. The great empire of the Victorian Age now seems a distant echo. The transformation in status and power has inevitably been accompanied by a pervasive questioning about the very nature of 'British' history. How are its characteristics determined? The essays, written over the past twenty-five years, in History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain can all be said, in one way or another, to be concerned with the 'Identity of Britain' in the modern period.
520 8 $aThey complement and elaborate themes developed in Keith Robbins' books.
520 8 $aIn the first group, as a former editor of History and President of the Historical Association, the author considers how British historians have themselves reflected and shaped the national understanding of the British past. He discusses the implications of such debates for the present. Have we reached the end of British history in the age of European integration?
520 8 $aIn the second group, attention is concentrated on beliefs and values, ranging from aspects of Edwardian religion to the problems posed for the churches by the rise of Nazism. This section also includes a discussion of religion and national identity in modern Britain. Another essay takes 1940 as its reference point for a searching enquiry into contemporary understandings of 'Christian Civilization'. What kind of Christian country was Britain?
520 8 $aThe third group, reflecting the author's teaching experience in England, Scotland and Wales, approaches the puzzling problem of the nature of 'Britishness' from distinct angles.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xChurch history$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056618
650 0 $aNational characteristics, British.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089960
852 00 $bglx$hDA566.2$i.R63 1993