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A Useful History of Britain

- The Politics of Getting Things Done
Af: Michael Braddick Engelsk Hardback

A Useful History of Britain

- The Politics of Getting Things Done
Af: Michael Braddick Engelsk Hardback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198848301
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0198848307
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 22 jul 2021
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 224mm
Højde: 147mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 22 jul 2021
Forfatter(e): Michael Braddick
Forfatter(e) Michael Braddick

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9780198848301

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 224mm

Højde 147mm

Udg. Dato 22 jul 2021

Oplagsdato 22 jul 2021

Forlag Oxford University Press

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