Maurice Cowling

(1926–2005) Historian

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Maurice Cowling was a historian.

Quick Facts About Maurice Cowling

Born: September 6, 1926
Died: August 24, 2005
Profession: Historian

About Maurice Cowling

[Wikidata] historian... | [Wikipedia] Maurice John Cowling was a British historian. A fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, for most of his career, Cowling was a leading conservative exponent of the 'high politics' approach to political history.

Quotes by Maurice Cowling

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of…

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Britain

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I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive…

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Book

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It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been…

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Army

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If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and…

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Class

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I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be…

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Conservative

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Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is…

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Approach

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