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The turning points of history

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"…the practical thing for a nation which has stumbled upon one of the turning points of history is not to behave as though nothing very important were involved… When the broken ends of its industry, its politics, its social organisation, have to be pieced together after a catastrophe, it must make a decision… It must, in short, have recourse to principles." (Tawney, 1961 [1921], 10)

We now know that Richard Tawney was writing at ‘one of the turning points of history’. But Tawney him...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
Sub department:
Geography
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Author
Publisher:
Lawrence and Wishart Publisher's website
Journal:
Renewal: a journal of social democracy Journal website
Volume:
21
Issue:
4
Pages:
11-20
Publication date:
2013-01-01
Acceptance date:
2013-12-01
Pubs id:
pubs:606933
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uuid:119a6958-928a-4a3d-820c-a26270f4717e
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pubs:606933
Source identifiers:
606933
Deposit date:
2016-03-01

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