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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 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 internatio

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Author

David Edgerton

Publisher

Allen Lane

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846147753

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (223 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14