Continuity and Anachronism: Parliamentary and Constitutional Development in Whig Historiography and in the Anti-Whig Reaction Between 1890 and 1930Several ofthe themes of this study have been treated in earlier publica tions, some by means of a general analysis and some through a detailed handling of problems raised by a particular theme or historian. Both the more general theoretical treatment of the theme and the concrete historiographical treatment are, I think, indispensable aids to the proper understanding of the development of historical scholarship in nineteenth-and twentieth-century England. There are a number of problems in a concrete historiographical approach: there is first the mass of historians to be faced, and then the immense amount of historical themes dealt with in various periods. As a guideline through the tangle of themes we chose the historiography on the development of the English parliament. We can only hope that we have made a responsible choice of the historians concerned. Un fortunately it was not always possible for us to give extensive biogra phies of some of the more recent historians, as several 'papers' are still firmly in the possession of families, and a number of them mus- despite of years - still be labelled 'confidential.' The Pollard Papers in the London Institute of Historical Research thus remained inaccessible. Fortunately the lack was partly compen sated by some important material being found apart from these Papers. |
Contents
THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF WHIG HISTORICAL WRITING | 1 |
CRITICISM OF THE FEATURES OF WHIG HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION ANACHRONISM FINALISM AND HISTORICAL CONTINUITY | 3 |
B THE RELATIVIZATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY | 34 |
Seeleys approach and Gardiners method | 36 |
W Cunningham and G Unwin | 43 |
JH Round and GW Prothero | 51 |
WHIG HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY A MYTH ABOUT A MYTH? | 72 |
1 Macaulay and the Glorious Revolution | 111 |
4 Efficiency and administrative professionalism | 228 |
LAW AND HISTORY FW MAITLAND A MAITLANDS ROAD TO HISTORY | 240 |
B LAW AND HISTORY INCOMPATIBLE? | 248 |
C MAITLAND VERSUS ANACHRONISMS | 263 |
A LIBERAL REVALUATION OF THE TUDOR MONARCHY A F POLLARD | 274 |
ENGLISH FREEDOM AND ITS FETTERED BIRTH Somerset and Henry VIII | 282 |
2 Pollards Liberalism and Tudor Efficiency | 292 |
1 In the steps ofFW Maitland | 302 |
a The 19thcentury topicality of George HI | 123 |
3 Cromwell and the Civil War | 140 |
THE OXFORD SCHOOL W STUBBS EA FREEMAN AND J R GREEN | 153 |
g Stubbss synthesis of medieval constitutional development | 156 |
3 Stubbss parliamentary thesis | 161 |
4 Background of Stubbss views | 170 |
5 EA Freeman and JR Green | 186 |
TRADITION DISCREDITED | 196 |
B OLD LIBERALISM AS CONSERVATIVE REALISM | 206 |
C WHIGGERY VERSUS GLADSTONIAN LIBERALISM | 211 |
IDEALISM AND REALISM EFFICIENCY USED AS AN IDEOLOGY AGAINST TRADITION | 215 |
2 Power and Efficiency | 218 |
3 Efficiency and Empire | 222 |
2 Pollards confusing abundance | 308 |
3 Pollard and his critics | 316 |
D POLLARDISM THE REFORMATION PARLIAMENT | 328 |
ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY T F TOUT | 345 |
A MIRROR OF THE TIMES | 347 |
C T F TOUT AND THE FRENCH HISTOIRE EVENEMENTIELLE | 350 |
D T F TOUT AND HIS ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY | 355 |
THE LIMITS OF ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY AND THE ILLUSIONS OF SPECIALIZATION | 361 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AF POLLARDS WRITINGS | 374 |
SOURCES AND LITERATURE | 398 |
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