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Empire of Democracy

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Reid-Henry Simon

John Murray Press

EAN: 9781473670556

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'Formidably ambitious... boldly attempts to paint a thematic portrait of the world's democracies and delivers an argument that leaders grounded these political structures on free-market economics... There is much to admire in Reid-Henry's book' Financial Times

'An impressive work, and a wonderful primer for anyone wanting to know why we are where we are ... A tour de force of historical comprehension over almost half a century of remarkable turbulence. And as we travel further from the events it describes, many of its judgements are likely to prove sound' Simon Heffer, Spectator

'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post

'[Reid-Henry] conveys an important message: Individual political action must become accountable to society's interests' Kirkus

'Reid-Henry's scholarship is impressive, gathering a wide range of historical anecdotes and referencing a diverse set of thinkers' Publishers Weekly

'the most valuable political education and history lesson you receive in 2019' Irish Independent

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.

Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next - a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew.

In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and Western history with it, was profoundly re-imagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl.

The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the Cold War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times.

The present crisis of liberalism enjoins us to revisit these as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out, democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this panoramic history poignantly reminds us, the choices we make going forward require us first to come to terms with where we have been.

EAN 9781473670556

ISBN 1473670551

Typ produktu Pevná vazba

Vydavatel John Murray Press

Datum vydání 27. června 2019

Stránky 880

Jazyk English

Rozměry 240 x 159 x 49

Země United Kingdom

Sekce General

Autoři Reid-Henry Simon

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