Peter Stansky
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter David Lyman Stansky is an American historian specializing in modern British history. Works Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s England Since 1867: Continuity and Change Gladstone: A Progress in Politics William Morris Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World Another Book that Never Was From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper includes bibliography of writings 1954–1998Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil Journey to the Frontier: Julian Bell and John Cornford: Their lives and the 1930s, with William Abrahams The Unknown Orwell, with William Abrahams Orwell: The Transformation, with William Abrahams London's Burning, with William Abrahams The Left and War: The British Labour Party and the First World War, editor John Morley Nineteenth Century Essays, Editor Winston Churchill: A Profile, Editor The Victorian Revolution, Editor On Nineteen Eighty-Four, Editor The Aesthetic Movement and the Art and Crafts Movement, Editor, with Rodney Shewan. A reprint series of 73 volumes Conference on British Studies Biographical series, Editor, 6 vols.Modern British History Series, Editor, 18 vol. with Leslie Hume Modern European History Series, Editor, 47 vols. The First Day of the Blitz Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War Edward Upward: Art and Life ‘’The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War’’
Peter Stansky's Published Works
Published Works
- Gender Differences and Performance in Science (2005) (81)
- On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World (1996) (48)
- Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England (1979) (40)
- Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (1987) (39)
- Merchants Against Industry: An Idea and its Origins (1975) (25)
- To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization or Writing in Britain (2006) (24)
- Palmerston: The Early Years, 1784-1841 (1984) (23)
- The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830–1970 (review) (2010) (22)
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 18701970. By Michael Bentley (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006) 245 pp. $75.00 cloth $29.99 paper (2008) (20)
- The Unknown Orwell (1972) (16)
- The Lights of Liberalism: University Liberals and the Challenge of Democracy 1860–86. By Christopher Harvie. London: Allen Lane, 1976. Pp. 343. £9.50. - The Liberal Mind, 1914–1929. By Michael Bentley. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 279. £9.50. (1978) (14)
- London's Burning: Life, Death and Art in the Second World War (1994) (14)
- On nineteen eighty-four (1983) (12)
- Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War (1966) (10)
- Approaches to history (1962) (10)
- Orwell, the transformation (1979) (8)
- The Victorian Revolution: Government and Society in Victoria's Britain (1973) (8)
- Journey to the frontier : Julian Bell & John Cornford: their lives and the 1930s (1966) (7)
- Gladstone, a progress in politics (1979) (6)
- Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War (2012) (5)
- The First Day of the Blitz: September 7, 1940 (2007) (5)
- The Crumbling Frontiers of History or History and Biography: Some Personal Remarks (1990) (5)
- From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper: Studies in the Radical Domestic (1984) (5)
- From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity, 1877-1939 (review) (2006) (5)
- In Search of Victorian England@@@England and the English@@@Nineteenth-Century Essays@@@The Oxford Movement: Twelve Years, 1833-1845@@@On Scotland and the Scotch Intellect@@@The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth Late Queen of England (1973) (4)
- W.H. Smith (1966) (4)
- The Left and War: The British Labour Party and World War I (1969) (4)
- Father of his country (1993) (3)
- The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson and the Critique of Capitalism (2018) (3)
- British Literature and Imperialism (2010) (2)
- Anglo-Jew or English/British ? Some dilemmas of Anglo-Jewish history (1995) (2)
- The Left and War: The British Party and World War I. (1969) (2)
- Edwardian Bloomsbury (2010) (2)
- George Orwell and the Origins of “1984” (1976) (2)
- Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA Since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 416. $19.95 (1981) (2)
- The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth Century Visionaries and Their Legacy (2018) (1)
- London's Burning (1994) (1)
- The unknown Orwell : Orwell, the transformation (1994) (1)
- W. C. Lubenow. The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Personal Life. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 458. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-57213-4. (1999) (1)
- The Strange Death of Liberal England: Fifty Years After (1985) (1)
- The Other Rossettis (2010) (1)
- Another Book That Never Was William Morris, Charles Gere, the House of the Wolfings (1998) (1)
- The Victorian Club (2014) (1)
- William Morris, C.R. Ashbee, and the arts and crafts (1984) (1)
- The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (review) (2010) (1)
- London's Burning: Life, Death, and Art in the Second World War. (1995) (1)
- Churchill: A Profile (1973) (1)
- Is a Jew English? (2007) (1)
- Asquith (1966) (1)
- Sonya O. Rose. Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939–1945 . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 328. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-925572-5. (2005) (1)
- Reviews of Books (2000) (0)
- Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review) (2020) (0)
- Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis (2022) (0)
- Edward Upward: Art and Life (2016) (0)
- Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War. By Helen B. McCartney (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005) 273 pp. $90.00 (2007) (0)
- The Left and war (1969) (0)
- William Morris as Businessman (2010) (0)
- Peter Stansky, historian and writer, in conversation: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War. (2014) (0)
- Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War (review) (2007) (0)
- Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair (review) (2010) (0)
- The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Andrew Thompson (Harlow, Pearson Longman, 2005) 374 pp. $32.00 (2006) (0)
- Book Review:The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899-1914 G. R. Searle (1972) (0)
- Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (review) (2011) (0)
- Bethune by Roderick Stewart (review) (2016) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Edited by Chris Miele.FROM WILLIAM MORRIS: BUILDING CONSERVATION AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS CULT OF AUTHENTICITY, 1877-1939. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. (2006) (0)
- daphne patai. The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1984. Pp. x, 334. Cloth $30.00, paper $14.95 (1985) (0)
- C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist@@@The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds@@@Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago@@@Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1800s, and the Arts and Crafts (1986) (0)
- Asquith by Roy Jenkins (review) (2016) (0)
- Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (2022) (0)
- British Art, 1848-1914 (2010) (0)
- World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century (2000) (0)
- Walter Dean Burnham: In Memory and Appreciation (2022) (0)
- Book Review:The Manchester Guardian: Biography of a Newspaper David Ayerst (1973) (0)
- Morris William. The Collected Letters of William Morris. Volume I 1848-1880. edited by Kelvin Norman. Princeton N.J.. Princeton University Press. 1984. Pp. lx-iv. 626. $55.00. (1984) (0)
- Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. By Anton Howes (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2020) 416 pp. $35.00 (2020) (0)
- Christopher Hilliard. To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. 390. $29.95 (2006) (0)
- Gladstone. Volume 2: 1865–1898. By Richard Shannon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xvii+702. $49.95. (2000) (0)
- Book Review:Diaries and Letters, 1930-1939 Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson (1968) (0)
- JBR volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1970) (0)
- John Burnett, (ed.), The Annals of Labour: Autobiographies of British Working Class People 1820–1920 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974), 364 pp. (1975) (0)
- Editor's Fence (2010) (0)
- Book Review:A Wreath to Clio: Studies in British, American and German Affairs John W. Wheeler-Bennett (1969) (0)
- K. D. Brown, editor. The First Labour Party, 1906–1914. Dover, N.H.: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. 297. $31.00 (1986) (0)
- Leonard Woolf (2019) (0)
- The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War. By Adrian Gregory (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008) 354 pp. $90.00 cloth $34.99 paper (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Labor Organizations: The English Labour Movement, 1700–1951 (1984) (0)
- Gunn J.A.W., Matthews John, Schurman Donald M., Wiebe M.G., editors. Benjamin Disraeli Letters. Volume I, 1815-1834. Volume II, 1835-1837. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. 1982. Pp. 482. Pp. 458. $50.00 each. (1983) (0)
- Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History David King Dunaway (1997) (0)
- The Peers, the Parties, and the People: The British General Elections of 1910. Neal BlewettThe Last Liberal Governments: Unfinished Business, 1911-1914. Peter Rowland (1973) (0)
- The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (review) (2002) (0)
- William Morris (2010) (0)
- Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall by Anna Neima (2023) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- William Morris in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Mills (review) (2014) (0)
- Rupert Brooke (2010) (0)
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography. James Lees-Milne (1983) (0)
- An Expanding Society: Britain 1830–1900 by G. Kitson Clark (review) (2016) (0)
- Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (review) (2008) (0)
- Simon Schama: A History of Britain (2009) (0)
- Cambridge (2019) (0)
- Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair. By Jon Lawrence (New York, Oxford University Press, 2009) 328 pp. $59.95 (2010) (0)
- Book Review:English History, 1914-1945 A. J. P. Taylor (1967) (0)
- Edwardian England 1901-1914 (1965) (0)
- Dakers Caroline. Clouds: The Biography of a Country House. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1993. Pp. xviii, 278. $40.00. ISBN 0-300-05776-8. (1994) (0)
- Decade of Reform: England in the Eighteen Thirties. By G. Finlayson. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970. Pp. x, 115. $5.00 (1971) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Mark Hamilton.RARE SPIRIT: A LIFE OF WILLIAM DE MORGAN 1839-1917.London: Constable, 1997. (1999) (0)
- Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970 (review) (2007) (0)
- An Expanding Society: Britain 1830-1900 (1968) (0)
- Book Review:Harold Laski: A Life on the Left. Isaac Kramnick, Barry Sheerman (1996) (0)
- Socialism and Civilized Society (2019) (0)
- The Making of English National Identity (review) (2004) (0)
- JBR volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1978) (0)
- Arts and Crafts Objects (review) (2012) (0)
- The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (review) (2006) (0)
- Michael J. K. Walsh, ed. London, Modernism, and 1914 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 314. £50.00/$85.00 (cloth). (2011) (0)
- Book Review:The Headmaster: Roxburgh of Stowe and His Influence in English Education Noel Annan (1968) (0)
- Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (review) (2022) (0)
- Chapter 1. A Bloomsbury Childhood (2020) (0)
- Bloomsbury Boom (2010) (0)
- Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England. By Anthony Julius (New York, Oxford University Press) 811 pp. $45.00 (2011) (0)
- Virginia and After (2019) (0)
- Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850–1920. By Paul R. Deslandes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+319. $45.00. (2007) (0)
- David Swift . For Class and Country: The Patriotic Left and the First World War . Studies in Labour History 9. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. Pp. 230. $120.00 (cloth). (2018) (0)
- The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000, by Todd M. Endelman (2004) (0)
- International Government (2019) (0)
- Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Maurice Cowling (1982) (0)
- Playboys & Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London (2018) (0)
- A Young Apostle (2012) (0)
- Rare Spirit: A Life of William De Morgan 1839-1917 (review) (2000) (0)
- Utopía y antiutopía: William Morris y George Orwell (1984) (0)
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND CREDITS (2012) (0)
- Book Review:John Morley at the India Office, 1905-1910 Stephen E. Koss (1970) (0)
- The Nature of Biography@@@Studies in Biography (1981) (0)
- A Bloomsbury Childhood (2012) (0)
- S. P. Rosenbaum. Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 215. $45.00. ISBN 0-312-21305-0. (1999) (0)
- : The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867. . Patrick Brantlinger. (1978) (0)
- Standish Meacham, A Life Apart: The English Working Class 1890–1914 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977), 272 pp., $12.50. Asa Briggs and John Saville (eds.), Essays in Labour History 1918–1939 (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1977), 292 pp., $15.00. (1978) (0)
- The British Way with Culture (1990) (0)
- Anti-Imperialist (2019) (0)
- Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914. By Martin J. Wiener. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 381. $39.50 (1991) (0)
- The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000 (review) (2004) (0)
- London Fog: The Biography. By Christine L. Corton (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015) 391 pp. $35.00 (2016) (0)
- Volume Information (1978) (0)
- Crawford Alan. C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1985. Pp. 499. $45.00. (1986) (0)
- George Orwell & Nineteen eighty-four: The man and the book : a conference at the Library of Congress April 30 and May 1, 1984 (1985) (0)
- London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton (review) (2016) (0)
- harold wilson. The Governance of Britain. New York: Harper and Row. 1976. Pp. xiii, 219. $10.95 (1977) (0)
- Edwardian England 1901–1914 ed. by Simon Nowell-Smith (review) (2016) (0)
- Deborah Cohen. Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 400. $34.95 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- British History and Its Discontents (1997) (0)
- British Social Policy 1914–1939 by Bentley B. Gilbert (review) (2016) (0)
- Geoffrey C. Field. Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 405. $125.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- The Wars for Peace (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Henry Labouchere and the Empire, 1880-1905 R. J. Hind (1973) (0)
- Letters of William Morris (2010) (0)
- Lyulph Stanley: A Study in Educational Politics. By Alan W. JonesLyulph Stanley: A Study in Educational Politics. By Alan W. Jones. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 1979. 194 pp. $8.50 cloth. (1980) (0)
- Art & Interiors (2010) (0)
- Book Review:The General Election of 1880 Trevor Lloyd, N. Gibbs, R. W. Southern, R. B. Wernham (1969) (0)
- The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History.Annette CarruthersNew Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.424 pp.; 100 color and 250 b/w ills., 5 maps.Cloth $85.00ISBN 9780300195767 (2015) (0)
- Youth (2019) (0)
- Ceylon (1957) (0)
- 16. Toward 1984: George Orwell and Today’s Britain (2020) (0)
- Arts & Crafts Stained GlassPeter CormackNew Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.354 pp.; 269 b/w and color ills.Cloth $75.00ISBN 9780300209709 (2016) (0)
- Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890's.@@@Retrenchment and Revival: A Study of the Contemporary British Liberal Party. (1965) (0)
- C. F. A. Voysey: Arts & Crafts DesignerKaren Livingstone, with Max Donnelly and Linda ParryLondon: VA 388 ills.Cloth $65.00ISBN 9781851778546 (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Land Fit for Heroes: The Planning of British Reconstruction, 1916-1919 Paul Barton Johnson (1970) (0)
- Joy Melville. Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photograher. Stroud, U. K.: Sutton Publishing; dist. by National Book Network. 2003. Pp. xiii, 130. $150.00. ISBN 0-89236-681-8. (2004) (0)
- Editor's Fence (2010) (0)
- G. M. Young. Portrait of an Age: Victorian England. Annotated edition by George Kitson Clark. New York: Oxford University Press. 1977. Pp. 423. $38.00 (1979) (0)
- Review: Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English (2003) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW: Noel Annan.THE DONS: MENTORS, ECCENTRICS AND GENIUSES. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Harper-Collins, 2000. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:The Diary of Beatrice Webb Norman MacKenzie, Jeanne MacKenzie (1987) (0)
- England since 1867: continuity and change (1973) (0)
- Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don. By H. S. Jones (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 285 pp. $101.00 (2008) (0)
- Porter Roy. London: A Social History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 431. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-53838-2. (1996) (0)
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