Each of the thirty essays here penetrates to the root of a character, a problem, a style, an idea, drawn from the recent British past. Clear-eyed, acerbic, witty, David Cannadine makes the ideal guide for a tour of the past and companion as one considers the present. Mr. Cannadine is professor of history at Columbia University and author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967.
- ISBN10 0393307492
- ISBN13 9780393307498
- Publish Date 28 August 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 March 2004
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360
- Language English