A very British family : the Trevelyans and their world / / Laura Trevelyan
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Trevelyan Laura
|
| Titolo: |
A very British family : the Trevelyans and their world / / Laura Trevelyan
|
| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 929.20942 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; About the Author; Dedication Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Short Family History; 2 The Civil Service Pharisee; 3 The Radical Aristocrat; 4 The Romantic Crusader; 5 Clio's Disciple; 6 The Epigonic Generation; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people".The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve it.''G. M. TrevelyanThe Trevelyans are unique in British social and political history: a family that for several generations dedicated themselves tothe service and chronicling of their country, from the radical, reforming civil servant Charles Edward Trevelyan to the historian G. M. Trevelyan. Often eccentric, priggish, high-minded and utterly s |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A very British family |
| ISBN: | 0-85773-363-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818208903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |