'Forget almost everything you thought you knew about Britain ...
You will not find a better informed history' David Goodhart,
Evening Standard 'A striking new perspective on our past' Piers
Brendon, Literary Review From the acclaimed author of Britain's War
Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's
twentieth century. 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.
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