Namier

Peter is emerging as the Namier de nos jours: a meticulous and fearless analyst of the social and political structures of our time, as well as a fearless truth-teller.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

Peter is emerging as the Namier de nos jours: a meticulous and fearless analyst of the social and political structures of our time, as well as a fearless truth-teller.

The Namier de nos jours 2007

As Namier says, the irrational is not necessarily unreasonable.

David Trimble - Nobel Lecture 1998

We are to infer that Namier doesn't have much to say about Burke because Burke isn't worth writing about.

'Burke's Livery' O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1993

Its Introduction is, from beginning to end, an effort to return Burke to the insignificance to which Namier and his friends had sought to confine him.

'Burke's Livery' O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1993

I think this underestimates the authority, even if slowly waning, of Namier and his school over historiography, especially British historiography of the late eighteenth century.

'Burke's Livery' O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1993

But my main complaint about Namier concerns what he does have to say about Burke: the concentrated venom of his few and brief asides.

'Burke's Livery' O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1993

The reductivist approach to Edmund Burke, initiated by Namier, is still not without influence, at least in British historiography.

'Burke's Livery' O'Brien, Conor Cruise 1993

His books, written with a style and panache that few historians can rival, were a great success and established the credentials of 'the Namier method': close and detailed analysis of the family and patronage affiliations of members of Parliament, of their connections with economic interests — these were the keys to understanding eighteenth-century politics.

Under the Tudor Bed Hill, Christopher 1987

Namier was accused of taking the mind out of history, but he was much more cautious than that, and made no claim to have discovered a universal key.

Under the Tudor Bed Hill, Christopher 1987