History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

di Richard Davenport-Hines (Autore)

ric jerrom (Narratore)

William Collins, 2024

History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. This is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the evolution of historical ideas, purposes and methods in a clerisy that has enjoyed conspicuous influence in England for six centuries. There was growing recognition, in Tudor England, that the study of history especially improved the minds, enlarged the imaginations and broadened the vicarious experience of princes, noblemen and administrators. History showed, by precept and example, good government and bad, virtue and vice in rulers, and the reasons for the success or failure of states. History in the House looks at the temperaments, ideas, imagination, prejudices, intentions and influence of a select and self-regulated group of men who taught modern history at Christ Church: Frederick York Powell, Arthur Hassall, Keith Feiling, J. C. Masterman, Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker, and Hugh Trevor-Roper (a Victorian radical, a staunch legitimist of the protestant settlement, a conservative, a Whig, a Keynesian, a socialist, and a contrarian). Davenport-Hines History in the House is a top non-fiction book that delves into the 20th-century political science theories that shaped Britain. It's a must-read for those interested in the geography of power and the evolution of historical ideas. For fans of Ben Macintyre (Colditz), Andrew Lownie (The Edinburgh Literary Companion), Christopher Clark (Time and Power), Dominic Sandbrook (White Heat), and Anna Keay (Landmark). HarperCollins 2024

• Autore: Richard Davenport-Hines
• Narratore: ric jerrom
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 20:16:17
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: William Collins
• EAN: 9780008285753

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