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...Jack P. Greene Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Plunge of Lemmings: A Consideration of Recent Writings on British Politics and the American Revolution Jack P. Greene The story of how Sir Lewis Namier as a young man just graduated from BaUiol College, Oxford, started to work...

..., they certainly failed to persuade the American colonies of the fact. How this breakdown in understanding could have occurred in a nation celebrated for its political genius has been explained in part by another school of writers who since World War II have been working out the implications of Sir Lewis Namier s...

... of politics. . . . Also his nar­ row chronological limits bred myopia. Walcott s sin was to apply to several elections in the reigns of William and Anne an approach similar to that used by Namier when dealing with conditions at the beginning of the reign of George III. His weakness, if it is one, lies...

... of political fife, preferred to see him as essentially ahead of his times, a precursor of nineteenth-century liberalism. More recently, partially as a result of Sir Lewis Namier s influence, historians have cut Fox s reputation down to size; so much so that John Brooke in The House of Commons, 1754 1790 (New...

..., Charles McLean Andrews, Elie Halevy, Sir William Holdsworth, George Louis Beer, A. P. Newton, Winston S. Churchill, R. H. Tawney, L. B. Namier, Eileen Power) do not all fit this description: some led lives that were quite eventful, and some were not always happy. But enough of them qualify to take a good...

... Holdsworth, George Louis Beer, A. P. Newton, Winston S. Churchill, R. H. Tawney, L. B. Namier, Eileen Power) do not all fit this description: some led lives that were quite eventful, and some were not always happy. But enough of them qualify to take a good deal of the romance out of the biographical parts...

... recently, partially as a result of Sir Lewis Namier s influence, historians have cut Fox s reputation down to size; so much so that John Brooke in The House of Commons, 1754 1790 (New York, 1964) almost reduces Fox s political creed to deep obsessional hatreds. John W. Derry, Lecturer in History...

..., Sir Lewis Namier, Alan Bullock, Max Beloff, and others expressed serious reservations about the strict accuracy of the reports which had critically inflated Czech anx­ ieties.4 By the mid-1950 s it had become possible to reconstruct the crisis in considerable detail and to conclude that while Czech...

..., Namier, Whitridge, and other authors have attained with respect to the nature and events of the Revolutions of 1848 would suggest that historical schol­ ars of this generation with their current attitudes and instruments of investigation have reached in this field the point of diminishing returns...

... of the troubles of James with the Commons naturally floods back into the preceding reign; the institutional researches of the Maitlands and Putnams into the Middle Ages suggest a fresh approach Book Reviews 143 to Elizabethan institutions; and the findings of a Namier or a Laprade on the politics of aristocracy...

.... Then, at the other extreme from Toynbee, who seeks the forest at the Macaulay Revisited 551 expense of properly classifying the trees, there are Sir Lewis Namier and his followers. They insist that indeed there is no forest, only a tangle of underbrush. In this impenetrable jungle of the agnostic historians...

.... Namier, Diplomatic Prelude, 1938-1939 (London, 1948) and John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Munich: Prologue to Tragedy (London, 1948). 16 5 Pari. Debs. (Commons), CCCXLV, passim. 17Third Series (9 vols.; London, 1949-1955), IV, 360-588. 18 See, for example, Templewood, Nine Troubled Years, p. 345. Chamberlain...

..., 1969), pp. 45^18; Lewis Namier, England in the Age of the American Revolution (New York, 1963), pp. 224-25; Christie, Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform, p. 66; Bailyn, 70 The South Atlantic Quarterly Colonial Americans, whatever their own indulgence in the cir­ cumvention of the law, early viewed themselves...

.... Langer s position, E. H. Carr is inclined to attribute Stalin s decision to Britain s unilateral guarantee of Po­ land at the end of March, 1939, while L. B. Namier and Max Beloff think that the coyness of the democracies in dealing with the Soviets and the considerable evidence during the summer...

... of the charge of blatant and culpable ignorance. It was convenient once to put Johnson away neatly in a pigeon-hole labeled Tory and Jacobite, and leave him there. But since the work of Sir Lewis Namier in the 1930s, anyone who thinks that the designation Tory in mid-eighteenth-century Britain guarantees...