Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Dictionary Of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenThe Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leopold George Wickham LeggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenThe Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-1940
Author: Leopold George Wickham LeggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia
Author: Fred D. CrawfordPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred D. Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence. In two years of research, Aldington made major discoveries, including the extent to which Lawrence had cooperated with Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves, and B. H. Liddell Hart in the creation of the "Lawrence legend". For this and other reasons, Aldington concluded that Lawrence was a charlatan, a poseur, and a fraud. Upon learning of Aldington's antagonism to Lawrence a year before Aldington's book appeared, a powerful group including B. H. Liddell Hart, Robert Graves, A. W. Lawrence, and other Lawrence partisans worked behind the scenes to suppress and denigrate Aldington's biography. These attempts, Crawford notes, reveal a great deal about how private interests can determine what the public is allowed to read.
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Dictionary of Labour Biography
Author: K. GildartPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230500188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Volume XI of the Dictionary of Labour Biography maintains the strengths of earlier contributions to this well established and authoritative series. It incorporates many scholarly and original studies of Labour movement figures from a variety of periods and backgrounds together with special notes on related and neglected topics. Volume XI pays particular attention to the role and contributions of women and the multi-nationality of the British Labour movement. Each entry is accompanied by a thorough bibliography and incorporates the most recent historical scholarship in the field.
The Life of Thomas E. Scrutton
Author: David FoxtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470684
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Karl Llewellyn described Thomas Scrutton as 'the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century'. Scrutton played a key role in a number of politically sensitive court cases from the Great War to the 1930s. This biography draws on unpublished sources to evaluate his contribution as counsel, campaigner and judge in a number of areas: the development of a modern law of copyright; the checking of executive power in and after the Great War; and his attempt to develop English commercial law on a basis which reflected the practices and expectations of the commercial community. In addition to providing valuable insights into the nature of legal practice and advancement in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the book examines Llewellyn's claim that Scrutton adopted a 'realist' approach to the development of commercial law, and uses the body of Scrutton's judgments to explore the limits of a 'realist' approach to jurisprudence.