TY - JOUR
AU - Beers, Laura
AB - Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2012, pp. 575–592 Reviews Classes, Cultures & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin. Edited by Clare V. Griffiths, James J. Nott, and William Whyte. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011. xiiþ 320 pp. IBSN 0199579881, £65. In its range and eclecticism, Classes, Cultures & Politics is a fitting tribute to Ross McKibbin. In addition to more personal essays on McKibbin the man, the scholar, the teacher, and the journalist, the volume contains essays on themes ranging from differential attitudes towards working-class and middle-class gambling and risk, to the conservatism of inter-war fiction, to the role of social science in history, to the political ideology of the Labour party. While collectively fascinating, the sheer diversity of these essays draws attention to one of the central anomalies of McKibbin’s career, and one that makes Classes, Cultures & Politics less coherent as an edited volume than some other recent festschrifts. While McKibbin’s work, and particularly his magisterial Classes and Cultures, has had a profound impact on inter-war historiography, he has not left behind a definably ‘McKibbinite’ body of scholarship, nor has he fostered a group of disciples whose work is distinctively informed by 
TI - Classes, Cultures & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin. Edited by Clare V. Griffiths, James J. Nott, and William Whyte.
JO - Twentieth Century British History
DO - 10.1093/tcbh/hwr036
DA - 2012-12-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/classes-cultures-politics-essays-on-british-history-for-ross-mckibbin-qOq7KIIV7Z
SP - 575
EP - 577
VL - 23
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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