Singular Continuities

“While each of these essays can be read individually, and a review summary cannot even begin to do justice to the richness of the themes and arguments that they contain, their collective impact is to provide a new level of understanding about the varieties and persistence of tradition and nostalgia in modern British history.”—Albion

George K. Behlmer is Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author, most recently, of Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians (Stanford, 1998). Fred M. Leventhal is Professor of History at Boston Universit