Democracy and Political Culture
Studies in Modern British History
Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-883420-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-883420-5 (ISBN)
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. It is a study of British democracy and asks the question: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society?
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together allow us to reach a number general conclusions about modern British history. In this sense it is a successor to McKibbin's previous collection of essays, The Ideologies of Class (1991), while it also takes up a number of the themes of his Classes and Cultures (1998). Above all, it is a study of British democracy and asks the questions: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society and how might we measure it against other comparable societies? To do so, McKibbin has chosen not only more 'global' subjects - Britain's social structure and the sources of political authority; the social and political effects of the first world war; Britain's electoral and party system; its literary culture; its sporting culture, and the relation of that culture to the rest of the world, as well as to Britain itself; and a comparison of Britain's political culture with one of the closest comparable societies, Australia, and what that tells us about Britain - but also individual studies of three men, very prominent in British life, who, in different ways, both contributed to Britain's political culture and were also students of it: J.M. Keynes, an economist, Harold Nicolson, a politician and writer, and A.J. Cronin, a novelist. All three represented British political culture in its broadest spectrum.
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together allow us to reach a number general conclusions about modern British history. In this sense it is a successor to McKibbin's previous collection of essays, The Ideologies of Class (1991), while it also takes up a number of the themes of his Classes and Cultures (1998). Above all, it is a study of British democracy and asks the questions: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society and how might we measure it against other comparable societies? To do so, McKibbin has chosen not only more 'global' subjects - Britain's social structure and the sources of political authority; the social and political effects of the first world war; Britain's electoral and party system; its literary culture; its sporting culture, and the relation of that culture to the rest of the world, as well as to Britain itself; and a comparison of Britain's political culture with one of the closest comparable societies, Australia, and what that tells us about Britain - but also individual studies of three men, very prominent in British life, who, in different ways, both contributed to Britain's political culture and were also students of it: J.M. Keynes, an economist, Harold Nicolson, a politician and writer, and A.J. Cronin, a novelist. All three represented British political culture in its broadest spectrum.
Ross McKibbin is a Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford.
Acknowledgements
1: Introduction
2: J.M. Keynes as Sociologist: The Rentier in the Social System
3: A Story of his Time: The Political Career of Harold Nicolson
4: The Triumph of the Medical Career: A.J. Cronin's The Citadel
5: The Two-Party System in Britain: End or New Beginning?
6: Sport between 'Play' and 'System'
7: Sport as Religion and Emotion
8: Undoing Stereotypes: Britain and Australia in the Twentieth Century
9: Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.03.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 black and white figures/illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-883420-9 / 0198834209 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-883420-5 / 9780198834205 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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