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Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (Paperback) Loot Price: R254
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Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (Paperback): Simon Reid-Henry

Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (Paperback)

Simon Reid-Henry

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'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review '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 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. 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 C old 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.

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Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2020
Authors: Simon Reid-Henry
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 880
ISBN-13: 978-1-4736-7057-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 1-4736-7057-8
Barcode: 9781473670570

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