Stefan Collini

History, religion, and culture : British intellectual history 1750-1950

Preface General introduction Stefan Collini Presentation of History, Religion, and Culture Part I: 1. Historical distance and the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain Mark Phillips 2. Gibbon and the primitive church J. G. A. Pocock 3. Gibbons religious characters David Womersley Part II: 4. The lust of empire and religious hate: Christianity, history, and India 1790-1820 Brian Young 5. The Victorians and Oliver Cromwell Blair Worden 6. Religion and politics in the Quarterly Review 1809-53 William Thomas 7. Ruskins way: Tout ... fait comme un oiseau John Drury Part III: 8. The politics of anatomy and an anatomy of politics c.1825-50 Boyd Hilton 9. Images of time: from Carlylean vulcanism to sedimentary gradualism John Burrow 10. Race and nation in mid-Victorian thought Peter Mandler 11. Political thought and national identity 1850-1950 Julia Stapleton Acknowledgements Index.