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Article: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 (two volumes).(Review) (book review)
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- October 1, 2000
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British Intellectual History 1750-1950 (two volumes) Volume 1: Economy, Polity and Society Volume 2: History, Religion and Culture ed. Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore and Brian Young Cambridge University Press 14.95 [pounds sterling] each 283 and 289 pp; ISBN 0-521-63978-6 and 0-521-62639-0.
AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE historians will look back and mock the fin-de-millenium for its remorseless preoccupation with questions of culture, language and identity, just as we today look down upon the vulgar materialism and economism which we see informing so much of the historical scholarship of the years 1920-70. But though they may mock, the more discerning of our ...