Beschreibung:
'An analysis of the thought of one of the most wide-ranging and influential theorists of the 'English nation.' Ernest Barker
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Lancashire, Idealism and Whiggism: the making of an English political scientist; 2. The polis, law and the development of political studies at Oxford, 1900-20; 3. Society and the state in the English national past: the lure of Pluralism; 4. Statehood, nationhood, and internationalism: English political theory and the First World War; 5. Education and national character: the milieu of King's College London; 6. 'Continental' political science and the Cambridge Chair; 7. Traditions of civility: the construction of Englishness in the Second World War and beyond; 8. The expansion of Englishness: the Books Commission, Europe, and the Commonwealth; Conclusion. A late-Victorian liberal-conservative; Select Bibliography; Index.