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100	1		_aCorthorn, Paul, _eauthor. _9121438
245	1	0	_aEnoch Powell : _bpolitics and ideas in modern Britain / _cPaul Corthorn.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_axvi, 233 pages : _billustrations, photographs (black and white)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505			_aInternational relations -- Economics -- Immigration -- Europe -- Northern Ireland.
520			_a"Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's political life from the 1950s onwards, Paul Corthorn's intellectual biography goes beyond a fixation on the 'Rivers of Blood' speech to bring us a man who thought deeply about-and often took highly unusual (and sometimes apparently contradictory) positions on-the central political debates of the post-1945 era: rejecting the Cold War emphasis on the Anglo-American relationship (and at one stage going so far as to advocate the idea of an alliance with the Soviet Union); promoting free-market economics long before it was fashionable, while remaining a staunch defender of the National Health Service; vehemently opposing British membership of the European Community; arguing for the closer integration of Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK; and in the 1980s supporting unilateral nuclear disarmament. In the process, Powell emerges as more than just a deeply divisive figure but as a seminal political intellectual of his time. Paying particular attention to the revealing inconsistencies in Powell's thought and the significant ways in which his thinking changed over time, Corthorn argues that Powell's diverse campaigns can nonetheless still be understood as a coherent whole, if viewed as part of a long-running, and wide-ranging, debate set against the backdrop of the long-term decline in Britain's international, military, and economic position in the decades after 1945."-- _cTaken from dust jacket.
600	1	0	_aPowell, J. Enoch _q(John Enoch), _d1912-1998. _9110473
650		0	_aPoliticians _zGreat Britain _y20th century _xBiography _958929
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1945- _916335
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xEmigration and immigration _xHistory _y20th century. _915725
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