2 options
The great tradition : constitutional history and national identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960 / Anthony Brundage, Richard A. Cosgrove.
LIBRA K3161 .B78 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brundage, Anthony, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- Constitutional law--Study and teaching.
- Constitutional law.
- United States.
- Constitutional law--Study and teaching--United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government.
- Great Britain.
- Constitutional law--Study and teaching--Great Britain.
- Constitutional history--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book examines the prominent role played by constitutional history from 1870 to 1960 in the creation of a positive sense of identity for Britain and the United States.
- Contents:
- 1 "The Paragon of the World": English Constitutional History as National Identity 7
- 2 "A Three-Step Waltz, Germany, England, and New England Eternally Round and Round": Constitutional History as Racial Hierarchy 27
- 3 "I Do Not Believe in the Philosophy of History and I Do Not Believe in Buckle": Constitutional History as an Academic Profession 56
- 4 "A Too Acrimonious Spirit": Constitutional History as Culture Wars 89
- 5 "Our Law Is, in Fact, the Sum and Substance of What We Have to Teach in India; It Is the 'Gospel of the English'": Constitutional History and the British Empire 113
- 6 "Norman History Merges in That of England, the British Empire, and the United States": Constitutional History and the Anglo-American Connection 137
- 7 "Designed to Disarm America by Destroying Patriotic Spirit and Inculcating National Pusillanimity in the Name of Peace": Constitutional History and America's Culture Wars 164
- 8 "The Endless Jar of Right and Wrong": Constitutional History and the History Women 183
- 9 "I Never Met a Learned Man Who Less Oppressed One with His Learning": Constitutional History as Lawyers' History and Historians' Law 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804756860
- 0804756864
- OCLC:
- 72799270
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.