Democracy and Political Culture : Studies in Modern British History EPUB
by Ross McKibbin
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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century.
To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together allow us to reach a number general conclusions about modern British history.
In this sense it is a successor to McKibbin's previous collection of essays,The Ideologies of Class (1991), while it also takes up a number of the themes of his Classes and Cultures (1998).
Above all, it is a study of British democracy and asks the questions: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society and how might we measure it against other comparable societies?
To doso, McKibbin has chosen not only more 'global' subjects - Britain's social structure and the sources of political authority; the social and political effects of the first world war; Britain's electoral and party system; its literary culture; its sporting culture, and the relation of that culture to the rest of the world, as well as to Britain itself; and a comparison of Britain's political culture with one of the closest comparable societies, Australia, and what that tells us about Britain -but also individual studies of three men, very prominent in British life, who, in different ways, both contributed to Britain's political culture and were also students of it: J.M.
Keynes, an economist, Harold Nicolson, a politician and writer, and A.J.
Cronin, a novelist. All three representedBritish political culture in its broadest spectrum.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:21/02/2019
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- Pages:240 pages
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- ISBN:9780192570987