Research Catalog

Title

The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth-century history / David Edgerton.

Author

Edgerton, David

Publication

[London], UK : Allen Lane, 2018.

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Details

Description

xxix, 681 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, a story of building a welfare state and coping with decline. But what if Britain's history was approached from a different angle? What if we wrote about it with as we might write the history of Germany, say, or the Soviet Union, as a story of power, and of transformation? David Edgerton's major new book breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to radical discontinuities. Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways. Such a perspective produces new and refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry. Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation gives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Social conditions
• Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (603-638) and index.

Contents

1900-1950: The country with no name -- Mightier yet! -- Globalization to nationalization -- Kingdom of capital -- British capitalism? -- Knowledge and power -- Tomorrow, perhaps the future -- A mirror of the nation at work -- From class to nation -- 1950-2000: A nation in the world -- Building the future -- National capitalism -- Warfare state -- Two classes, two parties, one nation -- Social democracy, nationalism and declinism -- Possibilities -- Defending the nation -- Rulers' revolt -- A nation lost -- New times, New Labour.

Call Number

JFE 18-8290

ISBN

• 1846147751
• 9781846147753

LCCN

2018400320

OCLC

1017898327

Author

Edgerton, David, author.

Title

The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth-century history / David Edgerton.

Publisher

[London], UK : Allen Lane, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (603-638) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 18-8290