Democracy and Political Culture
Studies in Modern British History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198834205
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 241x165x18 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
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. It is a study of British democracy and asks the question: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society?
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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 do so, 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 represented British political culture in its broadest spectrum.
Democracy and Political Culture marks the continuation of an ongoing and somewhat eclectic conversation between McKibbin and his earlier scholarly selves. As ever, however, it is one worth listening to attentively.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
J.M. Keynes as Sociologist: The Rentier in the Social System
A Story of his Time: The Political Career of Harold Nicolson
The Triumph of the Medical Career: A.J. Cronin's The Citadel
The Two-Party System in Britain: End or New Beginning?
Sport between 'Play' and 'System'
Sport as Religion and Emotion
Undoing Stereotypes: Britain and Australia in the Twentieth Century
Conclusion
