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Asa Briggs •ï¿½37 Items / 14 Books, 2 Articles, 21 Reviews
Victorian People (1955)
by Asa Briggs
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
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    British Empire, Commonwealth, and Ireland (Review)
    Francis H. Herrick
    Victorian People, by Asa Briggs
    1. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
    The American Historical Review, April 1956, p. 694
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    The Age of Palmerston (Review)
    George Dangerfield
    Victorian People, by Asa Briggs
    1. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
    The Nation, November 19, 1955, p. 446
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    Victorians Seen Without Mockery (Review)
    Thomas D. Parrish
    Victorian People, by Asa Briggs
    1. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
    The Reporter, December 1, 1955, pp. 48-50
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    Age of the Aspidistra (3 Reviews)
    George Woodcock
    Victorian People, by Asa Briggs
    1. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
    2. Victorian Vista by James Laver
    3. Victorian Song by Maurice Willson Disher
    The Saturday Review, February 4, 1956, pp. 32-33
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    Brief Comments (28 Reviews)
    Twenty-seven outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 by Gordon A. Craig
    2. Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought by Ernest J. Simmons
    3. Japan's Modern Century by Hugh Borton
    4. Cities in the Wilderness by Carl Bridenbaugh
    5. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh
    6. Three Presidents and Their Books by Arthur Bestor, David C. Mearns, and Jonathan Daniels, ...
    7. Tinkers and Genius by Edmund Fuller
    8. Architecture, Ambition and Americans by Wayne Andrews
    9. The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States by Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger
    10. Academic Freedom in Our Time by Robert M. MacIver
    11. Facts to a Candid World by Oren Stephens
    12. Further Speculations by T.E. Hulme and Sam Hynes
    13. The Letters of George Santayana by Daniel Cory and George Santayana
    14. Cells and Societies by John Tyler Bonner
    15. On the Track of Prehistoric Man by Herbert Kuhn
    16. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson
    17. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows
    18. The Nez Perces by Francis Haines
    19. The Great Mother by Erich Neumann
    20. Hogarth's Progress by Peter Quennell
    21. Victorian People by Asa Briggs
    22. The Rungless Ladder by Charles H. Foster
    23. Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time by Germaine Bree
    24. The Stature of Theodore Dreiser by Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro
    25. Japanese Literature by Donald Keene
    26. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas Herbert Johnson and Emily Dickinson
    27. Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography by Thomas Herbert Johnson
    28. Painted Lace and Other Pieces by Gertrude Stein
    The American Scholar, Spring 1956, pp. 238-252