Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Julia Stapleton. Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain Since 1850. New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2001. Pp. x, 220. $69.95. ISBN 0-7190-5511-3.

Intellectual historians often attempt to recover their subject's intentions and the contexts in which they thought. Additionally, many pursue the influence of those particular ideas upon thinking and upon the activities of the real world. All of these ventures easily flounder on the intractable problems of discovering why people think as they do, what they actually meant, the audience ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.