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 ...

When Hitler wished to relax after a hard day at the office, he liked to watch films in his private screening room. Nazi propaganda movies were not his favorite entertainment; they felt too much like ...

Anyone who undertakes a general history of 19th-century Britain must marshal enormous amounts of information. In “Victorious Century,” author David Cannadine certainly succeeds in this task. When the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences, by David Cannadine, Allen Lane RRP£20/Knopf RRP$26.95 (April), ...

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 ...

David Cannadine is a phenomenally productive historian whose work has questioned received opinions on the management of empire, the decline (and survival) of the aristocracy, the invention of ...

It is "an odd presumption," Amartya Sen once observed, that "people of the world can be uniquely characterized according to some singular and overarching system of partitioning." In " ," David ...

If only the Taliban were like us. By Richard Overy The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences David Cannadine Allen Lane, 352pp, £20 This is a strange book. David Cannadine, a distinguished ...

A lifetime’s fascination begins without fanfare, in a classroom in the Black Country during the Fifties, where a young boy sits learning about medieval farming. “I remember being much captivated by ...

Should historians stop emphasising divisions in human society, asks David Priestland, or does this play into the hands of global free-marketeers? For many of us, history is something we are forced to ...