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	2001 Carnochan Lecture - Cannadine
		Cannadine is one of that small band of historians whose writings, while highly regarded by his academic peers, have also found a wide, popular audience.
		Cannadine's aim is to treat the aristocracy seriously rather than sentimentally, to `rescue the British upper classes from the endless (and mindless) veneration of posterity'.
		Cannadine remarks dryly that that `might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed'.
	shc.stanford.edu /shc/2000-2001/Cannadine/cannadine.html (2494 words)

	David Cannadine - postgraduate supervisor at the IHR
		David Cannadine - postgraduate supervisor at the IHR
		Professor David Cannadine is an historian of modern British history from 1800 to 2000.
		Professor Cannadine offers supervision on these topics and is especially interested in subjects concerned with new approaches to the major themes of 19th-century British history.
	www.history.ac.uk /degrees/cannadine.html (159 words)

	\| Review \| The History Teacher, 34.1 \| The History Cooperative
		Cannadine states that the rest of the world believes the British to be obsessed with class.
		Cannadine notes that these distinctions are used in a very fluid manner, as people move from one perspective to another, depending on prevalent mood and attitude.
		Cannadine contrasts British and American society and notes that "of all the communities the British have created across the seas and around the world, America is unique in having so explicitly rejected the hierarchical social structure and the deferential social attitudes of the colonial metropolis" (p.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/34.1/br_7.html (657 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain; ; David Cannadine
		Cannadine sets out to expose this ignorance and banish this confusion by imaginatively examining class itself, not so much as the history of society but as the history of the different ways in which Britons have thought about their society.
		Cannadine proposes that "class" may best be understood as a shorthand term for three distinct but abiding ways in which the British have visualized their social worlds and identities: class as "us" versus "them;" class as "upper," "middle," and "lower"; and class as a seamless hierarchy of individual social relations.
		David Cannadine is professor of history and director of the Institute of Historical Research at London University.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023109/0231096666.HTM (497 words)

	'Mellon: An American Life' by David Cannadine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In commissioning British historian David Cannadine to write this full-scale biography, son Paul Mellon strove to restore the financier and treasury secretary under three presidents to his rightful place in the history of the early 20th century.
		Cannadine neglects no aspect of his subject's life, painstakingly accounting for Mellon's complicated business dealings, his powerful political influence in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania and his competent stewardship of the Treasury Department at the height of Republican laissez-faire economic policies of the 1920s.
		Cannadine leaves little doubt that the financier put business ahead of ethics while Treasury secretary, securing favorable conditions for his various companies and continuing to direct their activities.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06295/731438-148.stm (1160 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| Mellon by David Cannadine
		David Cannadine’s magisterial biography brings to life a towering, controversial figure, casting new light on our history and the evolution of our public values.
		“David Cannadine has done readers on both sides of the Atlantic a great service in writing an erudite and compelling biography of a man immensely prominent in his day, virtually forgotten now, who believed, as his father did that the ‘serious business of life was business’.
		David Cannadine was born in Birmingham, England, in 1950 and educated at Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679450327 (1295 words)

	\| Book Review \| Journal of World History, 14.2 \| The History Cooperative
		Cannadine provides anecdote after anecdote (often accompanied by clever illustrations) about the creation and spread of pseudo-feudal orders and neo-Gothic spectacles at home and abroad to celebrate this imperial great chain of being.
		In contrast, Cannadine's vision of the British Empire is inclined to avoid conflict and discontinuity in favor of consensus and continuity.
		Cannadine's is not an empire of bureaucrats, businessmen, or laborers, but one of chiefs, emirs, and viceroys.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/14.2/br_9.html (2435 words)

	Amazon.de: History in Our Time: English Books: David Cannadine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These essays were written between 1988 and 1997, and Cannadine is often at his best when examining (and skewering) what he regards as the pompous follies of the Thatcher years.
		Cannadine intends this to be a "festive and high-spirited book," and while it may not live up to those particular adjectives, it remains an entertaining read for those interested in the history of Britain over the past 100 years.
		In the first third of the book, "Royals in Toils," Cannadine (The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy) makes a convincing case that although the monarchy may be evolving, in many ways it has remained "remarkably consistent and unchanging" for the past 200 years.
	www.amazon.de /History-Our-Time-David-Cannadine/dp/0300077025 (521 words)

	Ornamentalism Book Review
		According to Cannadine, the dominions were rural aspirational, the Indian Empire was caste-based and princely, the crown colonies in Africa were chiefly and traditional and the realm in the Middle East was Bedouin and tribal.
		A main idea in Cannadine’s book was that social hierarchy remained a big part of British national identity up until the mid-twentieth century.
		Cannadine wrote, “At the behest of the duke of Buckingham, who was colonial secretary, the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St.
	www.julielorenzen.net /ornamentalism.html (645 words)

	Review: Ornamentalism by David Cannadine \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Cannadine is an adventurous, original and highly accessible historian, and he has sought to resolve this paradox by examining the last 100 years of Empire and motherland - this "vast interconnected world" - through a single lens.
		Cannadine might simply argue that he has extended his earlier analysis of conservative, traditional, hierarchical Britain to the imperial arena.
		Cannadine gives some continuing credence to this vision by recalling, in an appendix, his own nostalgic memories as "a child of Empire", born in 1950, of what it was like to live in its misty afterglow.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/history/0,6121,485810,00.html (1424 words)

	ataxingmatter: Review of David Cannadine's "Mellon: An American Life"
		Cannadine exaggerates the economic impact of Mellon’s tax-cutting at a time when few earned enough to pay income tax at all, and is too uncritical of his support for the gold standard, tight money and balanced budgets even as the Depression closed in, policies modern economists agree exacerbated the economy’s collapse.
		Cannadine argues (rather lopsidedly) against the merits of these [Internal Revenue Service] inquiries, conducted, as he sees it, in a “stridently hostile” soak-the-rich atmosphere fostered by Franklin Roosevelt’s “infuriating raillery” and demagogic desire for revenge against men like Mellon.
		It is good to be reminded of Carnegie's sentiments about the obligations of the rich towards the community that made their wealth possible, but we should also take as fair warning Mellon's display of contempt for the rules of fairness, evident in his conflicts of interest and in his tax policies favoring his own pocket.
	ataxingmatter.blogs.com /tax/2006/11/mellon_an_ameri.html (711 words)

	H-Net Review: Stephen L. Keck on History In Our Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cannadine fires a number of broadsides against the type of facile image of Victorian Britain which might be useful to politicians -- especially Conservatives.
		Yet Cannadine finds some value in the book because Irving used the archives of Churchill's critics, which revealed, ironically, that Churchill's position in 1940 was much weaker than has been previously imagined, and, as a result, his achievements are even greater.
		Cannadine, then, mediates historical scholarship itself with the contemporary world: past to present, private life to public affairs, academic analysis(often of the royalty) to the tabloid press, and the concerns of intellectuals to the realities of nationalism and patriotism.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=590972509184 (1770 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire: Livres en anglais: David Cannadine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		de David Cannadine "Nations, it has recently become commonplace to observe, are in part imaged communities, depending for their credibility and identity both on the legitimacy of government..." (plus)
		Imperialism, Cannadine argues, was a vehicle that enabled the British to replicate and export their own "hierarchical social structure" to their colonies.
		Cannadine is excellent on the uses of pageantry and on the kitschy extremes it had reached by the nineteen-twenties.
	www.amazon.fr /Ornamentalism-How-British-Their-Empire/dp/019515794X (585 words)

	Kenan Malik's review of 'Ornamentalism' by David Cannadine
		Cannadine suggests provocatively that 'hierarchical empires and societies, where inequality was the norm' were in a certain sense 'less racist than egalitarian societies, where there was (and is?) no alternative vision of the social order from that of collective, antagonistic, and often racial identities'.
		Against this background, the moral of Cannadine's story is not so much that an empire built 'on individual inequality, had ways of dealing with race that contemporary societies, dedicated to collective equality do not'.
		It is rather that an age that enjoyed a bullish belief in the 'sameness' of the word possessed certain resources to cope with problems of difference that we no longer do, despite the fact that race and inequality were much more central aspects of the Victorian world-view.
	www.kenanmalik.com /reviews/cannadine.html (1439 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Ornamentalism by David Cannadine, reviewed by The New Republic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is true, of course, that all societies are rooted in history; but organic conservatives tend to argue against social or political change by claiming that such changes would not accord with the natural order, in which every person knows his or her place.
		Cannadine does not deny this, but in his effort to make his case for class over color he does not give it enough attention.
		Cannadine acknowledges the growth in imperial possessions of an educated, urban, nationalist, often rebellious native elite, infused with democratic ideals.
	www.powells.com /review/2001_10_11.html (2273 words)

	Remember the titans - The Boston Globe
		David Nasaw's portrait of Andrew Carnegie and David Cannadine's portrait of Andrew Mellon represent the biographical arts at their best: distinguished biographers taking on some of the largest figures of our business, political, and cultural history.
		One was an up-from-nothing tale of an immigrant with pluck, luck, and determination, and the other was a classic example of inherited wealth taking a sound and conservative path.
		David M. Shribman, for a decade the Globe's Washington bureau chief, is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
	boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/10/15/remember_the_titans/?... (1120 words)

	David Cannadine Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French...
		Cannadine looks at the British Empire from a new perspective--through the eyes of those who created and ruled it--and offers fresh insight into the driving forces behind the Empire.
		In this stylish and provocative book, the eminent historian David Cannadine brings his characteristic wit and acumen to bear on the British aristocracy, probing behind the legendary escapades and indulgences of aristocrats such as Lord Curzon, the Hon.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/David_Cannadine (1121 words)

	Amazon.com: Mellon: An American Life: Books: David Cannadine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cannadine does not shy from pointing out the hypocrisy and insensitivity in his subject-especially in his devastating behavior toward his unfaithful wife-but remains sympathetic throughout, providing a balanced look at a supremely principled businessman who made some startlingly unprincipled choices.
		David Cannadine, the author of this fine biography, uses quotes from The Judge's book to introduce each chapter and it is uncanny how aspects of The Judge's experience and thought echoed in the life of his most talented son.
		Cannadine was invited to undertake this 12 year project by Andrew's late son, Paul Mellon, a well-known cultural figure here in the nation's capitol.
	www.amazon.com /Mellon-American-Life-David-Cannadine/dp/0679450327 (3267 words)

	Britain in "Decline"?
		The argument that British decline was and is inevitable—but also that the decline is geopolitical and not personal in terms of individual standards of living—is a convincing one, and Cannadine's ability to juxtapose this decline against the aggressive policies of these three twentieth-century leaders adds an element of irony to his tale.
		Cannadine offers suggestions on how we might go about rewriting the history of Britain as we enter a new century and a new millennium.
		DAVID CANNADINE, Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the leading interpreters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/cannadin.htm (267 words)

	David Cannadine on the Paula Gordon Show
		After nine years living with his subject as only a biographer can, Professor Cannadine goes beyond opposing stereotypes of Mellon as "Robber Barron" or "Patriot" to conclude that unbridled capitalism, unregulated within a weak government, is not the way to run what ought to be a modern mature, compassionate nation.
		At the same time, Professor Cannadine also insists we recognize when we have the good luck to live in parts of the world where capitalism has been a success and benefited many, as Andrew Mellon and his friends believed would happen sooner or later.
		Distinguishing his biography of Andrew Mellon from other approaches historians often take, Professor David Cannadine explains to Paula Gordon and Bill Russell why Andrew Mellon is so important in American history and why this is the first full biography published.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/cannadine/index.html (1189 words)

	Star-Telegram \| 11/20/2006 \| Author profiles Herbert Hoover's treasury chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Mellon: An American Life, British historian David Cannadine reprises a well-known account of financier, industrialist and government official Andrew W. Mellon's having kept a group of bankers waiting in his apartment in Washington, D.C., about two hours while he talked of pictures generally and deflected questions about the Hermitage paintings.
		Cannadine's long detailed account of the marriage, the wife's adulterous affair with a British con man and the bitter, protracted divorce proceedings reads like a late Victorian period novel.
		The account of the divorce would be the most arresting reading in the biography were it not for the account of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's effort to convict Mellon of tax fraud.
	www.dfw.com /mld/startelegram/business/local/16058111.htm (743 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Mellon, by David Cannadine, Hardcover
		Cannadine introduces us to the shy, reticent Mellon, born into a Pittsburgh family of achievers, before moving on to his early work in lumber and banking, his ill-fated marriage to Nora McMullen, and his constant indulgence of his children, Paul and Ailsa.
		As Cannadine shows us, when Mellon's life ended during the New Deal, he stood for fiscal policies that were no longer supported.
		Cannadine's insightful account reveals Mellon as a man who took personal risks that seemingly defied his upbringing.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&isbn=0679450327 (1297 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Halloween v Guy Fawkes Day
		I'm sorry to hear that David Cannadine missed out on Halloween when he was a youngster.
		Mr Cannadine says that the gunpowder plot would nowadays "be described as religiously motivated terrorism", and yet his description of what happened in 1605 defy this term.
		David Cannadine has got things precisely backward about what constitutes "Americanisation." It's not consumerism or Halloween that makes Britain more like America, but the very nationalism and bigotry Cannadine advocates.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4408078.stm (2485 words)

	Hutt River Independent
		David Cannadine in his book "Ornamentalism" argues that in its heyday--from the 1850s to the 1950s--the British Empire was based on a conscious effort to export a model of class hierarchy and status from home out to overseas possessions.
		David Cannadine looks at the British Empire from a new perspective--through the eyes of those who created and ruled it--and offers fresh insight into the driving forces behind the Empire.
		In reestablishing the connections between British society and colonial society, Cannadine shows that Imperialists loathed Indians and Africans no more nor less than they loathed the great majority of Englishmen and were far more willing to work with maharajahs, kings, and chiefs of whatever race than with "sordid" white settlers.
	www.angelfire.com /wa3/hri/ornamentalism.html (457 words)

	Class in Britain
		In a 1992 article printed in his 1998 book History in Our Time, Cannadine deals with the question of class in Britain, and asks if there is any historian willing to tackle the subject.
		Cannadine finds three models by which the British have historically understood the inequalities in their society, and he traces the relative popularity of each model from the eighteenth century to the present.
		Cannadine’s view is that the hierarchical model best describes British society, and builds a powerful historical case over three centuries for this view.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~morgandj/book200118.htm (521 words)

	David Cannadine on the Paula Gordon Show
		Mellon was reflexively a Republican, Dr. Cannadine says, but, like the party after Lincoln died, was totally consumed by an unthinking republicanism strongly favoring big business, capitalism and the creation of a “free market” with lots of government intervention on their behalf.
		Professor Cannadine considers the importance of Mellon’s Scots-Irish Calvinist-Presbyterian background over the course of his lifetime and how that heritage is echoed in American politics.
		Among Professor Cannadine's many other books are The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, published by Vintage and Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, published by Oxford University Press.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/cannadine (1189 words)

	Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cannadine’s magisterial biography brings to life a towering, controversial figure, casting new light on our national history.
		David Cannadine is the editor and author of many acclaimed books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which won the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Governors' Award.
		He is one of the most frequent history commentators on British television.
	www.goldbergmcduffie.com /projects/cannadine (256 words)

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