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Author:

Edgerton, David, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Allen Lane,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

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

Subject:

Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
1900-1999

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1846147751
9781846147753

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1017898327

LCCN:

2018400320

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)