The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
Autor David Edgertonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2019
'A striking new perspective on our past' Piers Brendon,Literary Review
From the acclaimed author ofBritain's War MachineandThe Shock of the Old,a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.
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, from building a welfare state to coping with decline. Nobody would dream of writing the history of Germany, say, or the Soviet Union in this way.
David Edgerton's major new history breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to redefine what it was to British, and to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to huge disruptions. This was not simply because of the world wars and global economic transformations, but in its very nature. Until the 1940s the United Kingdom was, Edgerton argues, an exceptional place: liberal, capitalist and anti-nationalist, at the heart of a European and global web of trade and influence. Then, as its global position collapsed, it became, for the first time and only briefly, a real, successful nation, with shared goals, horizons and industry, before reinventing itself again in the 1970s as part of the European Union and as the host for international capital, no longer capable of being a nation.
Packed with surprising examples and arguments,The Rise and Fall of the British Nationgives us a grown-up, unsentimental history which takes business and warfare seriously, and which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141975979
ISBN-10: 0141975970
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141975970
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
David
Edgerton
is
Hans
Rausing
Professor
of
the
History
of
Science
and
Technology
and
Professor
of
Modern
British
History
at
King's
College
London.
He
is
the
author
of
a
sequence
of
ground-breaking
books
in
20th
century
British
history:Science,
Technology
and
the
British
Industrial
'Decline',
1870-1970;Warfare
State:
Britain,
1920-1970;
as
well
asBritain's
War
Machine,
andEngland
and
the
Aeroplane,
both
published
by
Penguin.
He
is
also
the
author
of
the
iconoclastic
and
brilliantThe
Shock
of
the
Old:
Technology
and
Global
History
Since
1900.
Recenzii
Every
so
often
a
book
comes
out
that
the
entire
political
class
needs
to
read
...
Edgerton
is
Britain's
most
exciting
and
arresting
late-modern
historian
...
Thanks
to
this
rich
and
compelling
book,
we
now
have
a
proper
map
and
compass.
A fierce and dazzling account of 20th-century Britain
An extraordinary revisionist study of modern Britain ... Edgerton's aim here is nothing short of a radical repositioning of our sense of ourselves as a nation. It's a startling book, and an unexpected thesis ... I'll be reading [it] over and over, and for years to come.'
Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain in the 20th century ... You will not find a better informed history of this country in the last century.
Stimulating and bracing ... He demonstrates that the story the British tell about themselves - and how it is taught in schools and discussed in the public sphere - is bogus.
Unsentimental and rigorous rewriting of British history. ... It looks beyond the froth of political debate, takes business seriously and analyses government as much from Whitehall and administration as Westminster and politics.
Beautifully written and can be read with pleasure by the general reader as well as the trained historian
Original, opinionated, scholarly, complex and immensely stimulating ... this ambitious and provocative book achieves something remarkable. It provides a striking new perspective on our past, one that future historians may not accept but will be unable to ignore.
A sweepingly, and ambitiously, revisionist account of 20th century British history ... full of striking lines ... and a very important challenge to much of the existing historiography.
Timely jolt to a deluded 'Bullshit Britain'. David Edgerton fillets national delusion and historical amnesia ... of a country that knows so little of its own history.
Edgerton is an extraordinary historian ... Written with bracing élan,Rise and Fallgenerates insights at every turn. Edgerton set out to rattle "the cage of clichés which imprison our historical and political imaginations", and succeeds magnificently.
... refreshing and immensely stimulating, and should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to understand the reality of twentieth-century Britain. Lewis Namier, another historian known for his combative brand of scholarship, viewed iconoclasm as the judge of a great historian, that having produced an account of a period 'others should not be able to practise within its sphere in the terms of the preceding era'. Edgerton has certainly achieved this.
A fierce and dazzling account of 20th-century Britain
An extraordinary revisionist study of modern Britain ... Edgerton's aim here is nothing short of a radical repositioning of our sense of ourselves as a nation. It's a startling book, and an unexpected thesis ... I'll be reading [it] over and over, and for years to come.'
Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain in the 20th century ... You will not find a better informed history of this country in the last century.
Stimulating and bracing ... He demonstrates that the story the British tell about themselves - and how it is taught in schools and discussed in the public sphere - is bogus.
Unsentimental and rigorous rewriting of British history. ... It looks beyond the froth of political debate, takes business seriously and analyses government as much from Whitehall and administration as Westminster and politics.
Beautifully written and can be read with pleasure by the general reader as well as the trained historian
Original, opinionated, scholarly, complex and immensely stimulating ... this ambitious and provocative book achieves something remarkable. It provides a striking new perspective on our past, one that future historians may not accept but will be unable to ignore.
A sweepingly, and ambitiously, revisionist account of 20th century British history ... full of striking lines ... and a very important challenge to much of the existing historiography.
Timely jolt to a deluded 'Bullshit Britain'. David Edgerton fillets national delusion and historical amnesia ... of a country that knows so little of its own history.
Edgerton is an extraordinary historian ... Written with bracing élan,Rise and Fallgenerates insights at every turn. Edgerton set out to rattle "the cage of clichés which imprison our historical and political imaginations", and succeeds magnificently.
... refreshing and immensely stimulating, and should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to understand the reality of twentieth-century Britain. Lewis Namier, another historian known for his combative brand of scholarship, viewed iconoclasm as the judge of a great historian, that having produced an account of a period 'others should not be able to practise within its sphere in the terms of the preceding era'. Edgerton has certainly achieved this.