Two volumes containing new essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.

Preface; General introduction Stefan Collini; Presentation of 'History, Religion, and Culture'; Part I: 1. Historical distance and the historiography of eighteenth-century Britain Mark Phillips; 2. Gibbon and the primitive church J. G. A. Pocock; 3. Gibbon's religious characters David Womersley; Part II: 4. 'The lust of empire and religious hate': Christianity, history, and India 1790-1820 Brian Young; 5. The Victorians and Oliver Cromwell Blair Worden; 6. Religion and politics in the Quarterly Review 1809-53 William Thomas; 7. Ruskin's way: Tout à fait comme un oiseau John Drury; Part III: 8. The politics of anatomy and an anatomy of politics c.1825-50 Boyd Hilton; 9. Images of time: from Carlylean vulcanism to sedimentary gradualism John Burrow; 10. 'Race' and 'nation' in mid-Victorian thought Peter Mandler; 11. Political thought and national identity 1850-1950 Julia Stapleton; Acknowledgements; Index.