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Public and Private Doctrine

Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling

Michael Bentley editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Aug '93

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Essays by a group of pupils, admirers and critics of the Cambridge historian Maurice Cowling.

This volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Maurice Cowling calls 'public doctrine' in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing. The book aims to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee.Maurice Cowling's first two books appeared in 1963, the year in which he also became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. This volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Cowling calls 'public doctrine' in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing and his role as a major Cambridge figure. This varied group of essays helps to situate Cowling's work in its wider environment which will aid those who are coming to it for the first time or who are trying to make sense of its complex filiations. Above all, it seeks to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee, while offering something genuinely worthwhile to all readers interested in recent historical and current intellectual tendencies in England.

'And what a rich book it is. There is not a single essay in it that does not provide cause for serious reflection.' Patrick Cosgrove, Daily Telegraph

ISBN: 9780521400138

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm

Weight: 710g

370 pages