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Angus Calder

Born

in London, England

February 05, 1942

Died

June 05, 2008

Genre

History, Literature, Scottish Culture

Influences

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Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.

He was a man of the Left, and in his influential book on the home front in the Second World War, The People's War (1969), he complained that the postwar reforms of the Labour government, such as universal health care and nationalization of some industries, were an inadequate reward for wartime sacrifices, and a cynical betrayal of the people's hope for a more just postwar society.

Other books include Revolutionary Empire (1981), The Myth of the Blitz (1991) and Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic (1994). ...more

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	The People's War: Britain, 1939 - 1945 4.18 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of the Blitz 3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gods, Mongrels, and Demons: 101 Brief But Essential Lives 3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empire from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speak for Yourself: A Mass Observation Anthology, 1937 - 1949 by Angus Calder (Editor), Dorothy Sheridan (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Souls of the Dead are Taking all the Best Seats: 50 World Poets on War 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolving Culture: Notes from the Scottish Republic 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	T.S. Eliot 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russia Discovered: Nineteenth-Century Fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scotlands of the Mind really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In return for supplying parliamentary votes en bloc to whichever government held sway at Westminster, the "managers" of Scotland - first the Dukes of Argyll, then the Earl of Bute, then, most successfully of all, the canny Lothian lawyer Henry Dundas - controlled patronage in Scotland and governed the country as much as its influential people thought it needed. By this means the old power of the regional magnates adapted to the new politics.”
― Angus Calder, Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland

tags: henry-dundas, scotland, scottish-politics

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“As Walter Scott showed, one could preserve the most intense passion for Caledonia stern and wild, one's own, one's native land, while rejoicing in the triumphs of the British armed forces over Napoleon and expressing devout loyalty to the Hanovarian dynasty, which, despite the madness of George III and the profligacy of his son and heir, had come to represent for Britons not only the virtues of sturdy monarchy under the sublime Constitution, but, most improbably, family values.”
― Angus Calder, Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland

tags: britons, family-values, george-iii, george-iv, house-of-hanover, monarchy, scotland, walter-scott

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