Volume: 31 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1981 |
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Branded as a Tsarist agent by Marx, Mikhail Bakunin was in fact trying to foment revolution throughout Europe, argues James G. Chastain. |
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Shula Marks puts racial stereotypes in South Africa in historical perspective. |
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Harriet Berry shows how the Venetian artist, Canaletto, who first came to England in 1746, was to give the English a new and lasting image of their land. |
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Irene Coltman Brown continues our series on the Historian as Philosopher. History taught Hume that faction, next to fanaticism, is of all passions the most... |
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London must be transformed into a place 'safe from fire and beautiful and magnificent' decreed James I – and Patrick Youngblood finds it was only the wealthy who... |
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Alan Wood argues that the real significance of 1905 lies not so much in what was achieved as in the portents provided for the achievements of the future. |
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The Exhibition held in Wembley in 1924 was intended to herald a great Imperial revival - in fact, as Kenneth Walthew shows here, it was to prove an escapist... |
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Why was Francis Drake in the Pacific in the 1570s? Was the Golden Hind bound on a trade voyage or was there a deeper political motive? The documents are... |
