Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Articles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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Ring of fire

  • 20 November 2000

Wagner and Philosophy Bryan Magee Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 416pp, £20 ISBN 0713994800

Hackademic

  • 11 September 2000

Troublemaker: the life and history of A J P Taylor Kathleen Burk Yale UP, 491pp, £19.95 ISBN 0300087616

Community living

  • 12 June 2000

On the Other Hand Chaim Bermant Robson Books, 256pp, £18.95 ISBN 1861053096

Both colonists and colonised. Can England's troubled relationship with Ireland usefully be compared to European colonialism? Geoffrey Wheatcroft weighs up the revisionist and nationalist debates

  • 22 May 2000

Ireland and Empire: colonial legacies in Irish history and culture Stephen Howe Oxford University Press, 334pp, £25 ISBN 0198208251 Nation and Religion in the Middle East Fred Halliday Saqi Books, 251pp, £29.50 (£14.95pbk)

The New Statesman Essay - Great hatred, little room

  • 03 April 2000

Geoffrey Wheatcrofton the clash of cultures that created anti-hunting passions

Forging our history

  • 13 December 1999

The Isles: A History Norman Davies Macmillan,1,264pp, £30 ISBN 033376370X

Victory for the forces of conservatism. Two weeks after Churchill became PM the cabinet had to decide whether to continue the war. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the long weekend that could have changed the world

  • 15 November 1999

Five Days in London May 1940 John Lukacs Yale University Press, 288pp, £12.95 ISBN 0300080301

Israel v Palestine: which side is the left on?

  • 18 October 1999

Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that the row over Edward Said's origins echoes deeper historical questions

The continent turned upside down. Bosnia, Kosovo, the fall of communism - this has been Europe's most turbulent decade since the forties. And it has shown up the EU's aim of political integration as sheer hubris

  • 19 July 1999

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s Timothy Garton Ash Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 464pp, £20 ISBN 0713993235

The NS Essay - Send forth the best ye breed

  • 05 July 1999

Geoffrey Wheatcroft explains why the left wants the white man's burden again

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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