Table of Contents
List of Authors ix
Introduction Wm. Roger Louis 1
1 Jack the Ripper Richard Davenport-Hines 15
2 George Bernard Shaw and Physical Culture John D. Fair 27
3 Evelyn Waugh in North America Martin Stannard 41
4 V.s.Naipaul and the British Tradition of Biography Patrick French 57
5 Where Shall We Adventure? Hayao Miyazaki meets Robert Louis Stevenson Susan Napier 71
6 Newer Images of Women and Men in the Interwar Decades Reba Soffer 83
7 Encyclopaedia Britannica Joseph Epstein 97
8 Current American and British Newspapers Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr 105
9 The Anglo-American Special Relationship in Intelligence John Prados 123
10 The Quest for Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess Andrew Lownie 137
11 John Banville's The Untouchable Steven Isenberg 151
12 All Souls College S.J.D. Green 161
13 Guglielmo Marconi and England Paul Kennedy 177
14 Harold Nicolson and Royal Biography Jane Ridley 183
15 Keeping an Eye on the Present: Whig History of Science Steven Weinberg 199
16 Re-illustrating the History of the British Empire Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes 209
17 Britain Is Your Friend: Propaganda during the Second World War Rosemary Hill 223
18 Ernest Bevin and Palestine: Bevingrads and Demonologies Wm. Roger Louis 231
19 Britain's Egyptian Allies and the Suez Crisis Barnaby Crowcroft 247
20 Limitless Violence in Palestine Caroline Elkins 261
21 Rudyard Kipling and Mrs. Ewing Michael Holroyd 275
22 The British Empire: Ramshackle or Rampaging John M. Mackenzie 281
23 The Falklands Conflict: A Worm's-Eye View Sarah Beaver 295
24 How to "Fix a War: Tony Blair and Iraq Geoffrey Wheatcroft 311
25 Seeking a Role: Britain after Brexit Kenneth O. Morgan 323
26 British Studies at the University of Texas, 1975-2017 339
