A Useful History of Britain
The Politics of Getting Things Done
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 July 2021
- ISBN 9780198848301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 221x145x25 mm
- Weight 424 g
- Language English 131
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Short description:
This is a short history of the political life of this island over a very long period, showing how history can speak clearly to current political debates.
MoreLong description:
The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island. Here, Michael Braddick sets out to do something else?to ask how people in the past used political power to get things done.
Offering a concise thematic overview, it shows how history can speak directly to current political debates. Many people feel that national governments are irrelevant to their lives and that the problems we now face are beyond our control-climate change, disease and global economic regulation for example. But much of this is not new. The ideas and challenges driving political life have always affected larger parts of the globe: British experience has always been part of a shared and parallel global history, often directly linked by institutions reaching well beyond the island. On the other hand, throughout the last 6000 years people have acted at smaller scales too.
What we really have in common with previous inhabitants of this island is the ambition to use political power to get things done, not a shared destiny culminating in government based in Westminster.
This book sets out to learn more broadly from their experience, giving us a much fuller perspective on where we are now. Just as importantly, it gives us more resources for thinking about what we might do next.
this book offers a unique look at Britain in a global context.
Table of Contents:
Power over our world, power over each other
The history of political life on Britain
Political life: collective and differential power
What needs to be done and what can be achieved
Mobilising ideas
Changing material conditions
Organizational capacity
Patterns in the uses of political power
Political inclusion: who gets to make things happen?
Geographies of political power and identity: which groups take action for what purposes?
Change over time: phases in the history of political life
Globalizing Britain's past: parallel and shared histories
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