Bøker av Ernest Barker

First published in 1930, Church, State and Study presents a collection of lectures by Professor Ernest Barker. All the essays may be said, in a word, to deal with the history or theory of society.

First published in 1927, National Character is based upon a course of ten lectures on citizenship, delivered, under the terms of the Stevenson Foundation, in the University and the City of Glasgow during the latter part of 1925 and the beginning of 1926. The author argues that to see how nations have become what they are may be the best way of discovering how they can make themselves other than what they are.Divided into two parts-the material factors and the spiritual factors, the book discusses themes like race, territory and climate, population and occupation, growth of national spirit, law and government, influence of churches, role of literature and thought, and ideas and system of education to understand the factors behind the formation of national character. This is an important historical reference work for scholars and researchers of political studies and political philosophy.

Oliver Cromwell and the English People, first published in 1937, contains the text of a lecture delivered by the author before the Friedrich Sthamer-Gesellschaft in Hamburg in 1936. It is printed together with notes and an epilogue on 'The English Puritan Revolution and the German National Socialist Revolution'.

This 1948 book may be described as a series of individual studies in the history of culture and civilisation. The first five essays share the common theme of the legacy of Greece. The last three are independent; but the theme of tradition and keynote of continuity are common to all.