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A Useful History of Britain - The Politics of Getting Things Done (Hardcover)
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A Useful History of Britain - The Politics of Getting Things Done (Hardcover)
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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.
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