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02937aam a2200421 i 4500 001 114B1C04933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 230223t20242024enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023001387 020 $a 1350374512 020 $a 9781350374515 020 $a 1350374504 020 $a 9781350374508 035 $a (OCoLC)1371653465 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d IBI $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-st $a e-uk-st 050 00 $a JN238 K57 2024 100 1 $a Kirk, Neville, $d 1947- $e author. 245 12 $a A nation in crisis : $b division, conflict and capitalism in the United Kingdom / $c Neville Kirk. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2024. 300 $a 232 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- A political earthquake : the 2017 general election and its aftershocks -- The Brexit crisis, 2018-19 -- The triumphs, trials and troubles of Boris Johnson, 2019-2021 -- Scotland : another way is possible? -- To the present. 520 $a "Since the 2007-9 financial crash and its aftershocks, international capitalism has once again been in crisis. In politics, social structure, the economy, culture and ideology, Western democracies seem to be fragmenting. Yet this crisis has been particularly marked in the UK, and its outcome is currently unclear. Based on a wealth of sources, Neville Kirk examines the systemic crisis currently facing the nations of the United Kingdom, by exploring how we ended up here. From 2010 and the politics of austerity, fall in living standards, crises in political leadership, Scottish nationalism, societal divisions and institutional fragmentation - to the present day consequences of the pandemic, inflation, polarised political parties, Brexit, the future of the Union, and cultural and ideological clashes around identity, class, race, gender and ethnicity in UK's past, present and future. By developing a thorough analysis of the UK's past and present crises, Kirk sheds light on how and what will determine whether the crisis is resolved, and in which 'old' conservative or 'new' radical ways"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 2007- 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Parliament $x Elections, 2017. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 610 20 $a European Union $z Great Britain. 600 10 $a Johnson, Boris. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Relations $z Scotland. 651 0 $a Scotland $x Relations $z Great Britain. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kirk, Neville, 1947- $t Nation in crisis $d London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 $z 9781350374492 $w (DLC) 2023001388 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=114B1C04933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search