The Intelligentsia of Great Britain

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain
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Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008508148
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Book Synopsis The Intelligentsia of Great Britain by : Prince D. S. Mirsky

Download or read book The Intelligentsia of Great Britain written by Prince D. S. Mirsky and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Red List

Red List
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781839762451
ISBN-13 : 1839762454
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Book Synopsis Red List by : David Caute

Download or read book Red List written by David Caute and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century. In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who pose a threat to the country's national security--from Nazi fifth columnists during the Second World War, to Soviet spies during the Cold War and today's domestic extremists. Yet, aided by the release of official documents to the National Archives, David Caute argues in this radical and revelatory history of the Security Service in the twentieth century, suspicion often fell on those who posed no threat to national security. Instead, this 'other history' of MI5, ignored in official accounts, was often as not fuelled by the political prejudices of MI5's personnel, and involved a huge programme of surveillance against anyone who dared question the status quo. Caute, a prominent historian and expert on the history of the Cold War, tells the story of the massive state operation to track the activities of a range of journalists, academics, scientists, filmmakers, writers and others who, during the twentieth century, the Security Service perceived as a threat to the national interest. Those who were tracked include such prominent figures as Kingsley Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Benjamin Britten, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Foot, Harriet Harman, and others.

Londonistan

Londonistan
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Publisher : Encounter Books
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781594031977
ISBN-13 : 1594031975
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Londonistan by : Melanie Phillips

Download or read book Londonistan written by Melanie Phillips and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the erosion of traditional British identity and the appeasement of radical Islamic groups has encouraged the growth of Islamic extremism in Great Britain and made London a hub for terrorist recruitment and activity in Europe.

Absent Minds

Absent Minds
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 540
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ISBN-10 : 9780191537523
ISBN-13 : 0191537527
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Absent Minds by : Stefan Collini

Download or read book Absent Minds written by Stefan Collini and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain - have such figures ever existed, have they always been more prominent or influential elsewhere, and are they on the point of becoming extinct today? Recovering neglected or misunderstood traditions of reflection and debate from the late nineteenth century through to the present, Stefan Collini challenges the familiar cliche that there are no 'real' intellectuals in Britain. The book offers a persuasive analysis of the concept of 'the intellectual' and an extensive comparative account of how this question has been seen in the USA, France, and elsewhere in Europe. There are detailed discussions of influential or revealing figures such as Julien Benda, T. S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said, as well as trenchant critiques of current assumptions about the impact of specialization and celebrity. Throughout, attention is paid to the multiple senses of the term 'intellectuals' and to the great diversity of relevant genres and media through which they have communicated their ideas, from pamphlets and periodical essays to public lectures and radio talks. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, Absent Minds is a major, long-awaited work by a leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator, ranging across the conventional divides between academic disciplines and combining insightful portraits of individuals with sharp-edged cultural analysis.

A Useful History of Britain

A Useful History of Britain
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780198848301
ISBN-13 : 0198848307
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Useful History of Britain by : Michael Braddick

Download or read book A Useful History of Britain written by Michael Braddick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak clearly to current political debates.

The Intellectuals and the Masses

The Intellectuals and the Masses
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780571265107
ISBN-13 : 0571265103
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Intellectuals and the Masses by : John Carey

Download or read book The Intellectuals and the Masses written by John Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0719064759
ISBN-13 : 9780719064753
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis West Indian Intellectuals in Britain by : Bill Schwarz

Download or read book West Indian Intellectuals in Britain written by Bill Schwarz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things--new music, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C.L.R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V.S. Naipaul.