The Great Tradition: Constitutional History And National Identity In Britain And The United States, 1870-1960

by Anthony Brundage

2021-01-10 08:34:08

The Great Tradition traces the way in which English constitutional history became a major factor in the development of a national identity that took for granted the superiority of the English as a governing race. In the United States, constitutional... Read more

The Great Tradition traces the way in which English constitutional history became a major factor in the development of a national identity that took for granted the superiority of the English as a governing race. In the United States, constitutional history also became an aspect of the United States''s self-definition as a nation governed by law. The book''s importance lies in the way constitutional history interpreted the past to create a favorable self-image for each country. It deals with constitutional history as a justification for empire, a model for the emergent academic history of the 1870s, a surrogate for political argument in the guise of scholarship, and an element that contributed to the Anglo-American rapprochement before World War I. The book also traces the rise and decline of constitutional history as a fashionable sub-discipline within the academy.

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File size9 X 6 X 1.2 in
Print pages360
PublisherStanford University Press
Publication date July 12, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780804756860
Anthony Brundage is Professor of History Emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA. Among his publications are seven books, the most recent of which, co-authored with Richard Co...

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