David Cannadine, Author . Oxford Univ. $30 (1216p) ISBN 978-0-19-521926-5
Noted British historian Cannadine (Class in Britain, etc.) gathers a dozen essays on modern British history, covering the era from 1875 (the zenith of British power) to the present (when that power is far diminished). Several of these essays, such...
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David Cannadine, Author Yale University Press $42 (320p) ISBN 978-0-300-07702-5
Cannadine intends this to be a ""festive and high-spirited book,"" and while it may not live up to those particular adjectives, it remains an entertaining read for those interested in the history of Britain over the past 100 years. The 30 essays...
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David Cannadine, Author Columbia University Press $90 (320p) ISBN 978-0-231-09666-9
Class has been a touchstone for historians of all ideological stripes over the last century, but no consensus has emerged. ""The rise of the middle class,"" for instance, has been located in every century of British history from the 14th to the 19th.
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David Cannadine, Author Knopf Publishing Group $35 (800p) ISBN 978-0-679-45032-0
In this volume, the first published ""full-scale life"" of financial pioneer Andrew Mellon-who would help propel the country to economic domination, serve as servant and scapegoat for powerful White House administrations, and establish the National...
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David Cannadine, Author W. W. Norton & Company $32.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-03528-5
In this thematic biography, noted historian Cannadine ( The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy ) ably analyzes the significance of Trevelyan (1876-1962), the most widely read historian of his generation, whose reputation declined sharply...
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David Cannadine. Knopf, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26907-2
Readers able to navigate the dense roundabout writing style of historian/Princeton lecturer Cannadine (Mellon: An American Life) will find a complex, thoughtful examination of the fundamental ways in which humanity divides itself. While these all...
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David Cannadine. Viking, $40 (576p) ISBN 978-0-525-55789-0
Cannadine (The Undivided Past), professor of history at Princeton, focuses on high politics, with a fondness for historical irony and an eye for patterns, in this steady history of 19th-century Britain. He book-ends his study with two telling events:
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Edited by David Cannadine. Bloomsbury Continuum, $30 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4729-4521-1
This thin volume, which could have been a little thinner yet, consists of a long, well-written introduction by noted British historian Cannadine (Class in Britain), 12 of Churchill’s essays on and reviews of art, and four short essays by art critics
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