Namier

British  

/ ˈneɪmɪə /

noun

1. Sir Lewis Bernstein , original name Ludwik Bernsztajn vel Niemirowski . 1888–1960, British historian, born in Poland: noted esp for his studies of 18th-century British politics

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Namier

Namier loved England for its very lack of ideology.

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Namier traces his troubles to a tyrannical father: "A rebel towards his father and his political chiefs, he turned into a heavy father when acting for the mother country in relation to her offspring."

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Namier sifted speeches of the period, records, diaries and letters.

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"Some political philosophers complain of a 'tired lull' and the absence at present of argument on general politics in this country." wrote British Historian Lewis Namier before his death in 1960.

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Namier, Professor Masaryk, Dr. Beneš, V. Nosek and others will be found in the weekly review of foreign politics, the New Europe, published by Messrs. Constable & Co.,

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimír Nosek

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