{"product_id":"history-in-the-house-richard-davenport-hines-9780008285722","title":"History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHistory in the House \u003c\/em\u003epulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance. \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an exciting new historiographical study from the much-acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines. It shows the evolution of historical ideas, purposes and methods in a clerisy that has enjoyed conspicuous influence in England for six centuries. There was growing recognition, in Tudor England, that the study of history especially improved the minds, enlarged the imaginations and broadened the vicarious experience of princes, noblemen and administrators. History showed, by precept and example, good government and bad, virtue and vice in rulers, and the reasons for the success or failure of states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHistory in the House \u003c\/em\u003elooks at the temperaments, ideas, imagination, prejudices, intentions and influence of a select and self-regulated group of men who taught modern history at Christ Church: Frederick York Powell, Arthur Hassall, Keith Feiling, J. C. Masterman, Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker, and Hugh Trevor-Roper (a Victorian radical, a staunch legitimist of the protestant settlement, a conservative, a Whig, a Keynesian, a socialist, and a contrarian).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Davenport-Hines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0008285721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780008285722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.25w x 1.13d","brand":"Richard Davenport-Hines","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46217139650815,"sku":"9780008285722","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6720fc54-1433-4092-963f-3c48b4c3fa22.jpg?v=1728514399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-in-the-house-richard-davenport-hines-9780008285722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}