The great tradition: constitutional history and national identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960

Introduction

"The paragon of the world": English constitutional history as national identity

"A three-step waltz, Germany, England, and New England eternally round and round": Constitutional history as racial hierarchy

"I do not believe in the philosophy of history and I do not believe in Buckle": constitutional history as an academic profession

"A too acrimonious spirit" constitutional history as culture wars

"Our law is, in fact, the sum and substance of what we have to teach in India; it is the 'gospel of the English'": constitutional history and the British Empire

"Norman history merges in that of England, the British Empire, and the United States": constitutional history and the Anglo-American connection

"Designed to disarm America by destroying patriotic spirit and inculcating national pusillanimity in the name of peace": constitutional history and America's culture wars

"The endless jar of right and wrong": constitutional history and the history women

"I never met a learned man who less oppressed one with his learning": constitutional history as lawyers' history and historians' law

Conclusion.