Volume: 39 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1989 |
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Nancy Mitford takes a perceptive and ironic look at the reaction of 18th-century French 'society' to the Enlightenment's great philosophe. The author was one of... |
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Rowan Williams examines the career of the 2nd-century theologian whose powerful and idiosyncratic vision illuminates the tensions and development of the early... |
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David Keys uncovers London's German enclave. |
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He may have crystallised our image of the Victorian Christmas, but is there a Dickens for all our seasons? Raphael Samuel embarks on an investigation of how film and... |
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Paris' most famous landmark is 100 years old this year. But, as Jean-Pierre Navailles relates, the plans raised a storm of protest at the time directed against '... |
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William Bird looks at how American business and commerce turned to the techniques of advertising and Hollywood to extol the merits of capitalism and free... |
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Penelope Johnston examines Kodak photography's past. |
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'Am I just a crook to compromise in order to get the job done? You judge it, I can't'. Alonzo Hamby traces the web of influences from his boyhood in a Mid-West... |
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Jonathan Clark probes the anti-Catholic actions and millenarian rhetoric of 18th-century America, challenging the assumption that 1776 was solely a product of... |
