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020			_a9781846147753 _qhardback
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100	1		_aEdgerton, David, _eauthor. _9105262
245	1	4	_aThe rise and fall of the British nation : _ba twentieth-century history / _cDavid Edgerton.
264		1	_aLondon : _bAllen Lane, and imprint of Penguin Books, _c2018.
300			_axxix, 681 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPart I. 1900-1950 -- 1. The country with no name -- 2. Mightier yet! -- 3. Globalization to nationalization -- 4. Kingdom of capital -- 5. British capitalism -- 6. Knowledge and power -- 7. Tomorrow, perhaps the future -- 8. A mirror of the nation at work -- 9. From class to nation -- Part II. 1950-2000 -- 10. A nation in the world -- 11. Building the future -- 12. National capitalism -- 13. Warfare state -- 14. Two classes, two parties, one nation -- 15. Social democracy, nationalism and declinism -- 16. Possibilities -- 17. Defending the nation -- 18. Rulers' revolt -- 19. A nation lost -- 20. New times, new labour.
520			_a"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 Nation gives 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." _cTaken from dust jacket.
650		0	_925291 _aCapital _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_929822 _aEconomics _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_9119518 _aMilitarism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century. _915908
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _916239
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