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A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done
Contributor(s): Braddick, Michael (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198848307     ISBN-13: 9780198848301
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $28.49  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Great Britain - 21st Century
- History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century
- Political Science | World - European
Dewey: 941
LCCN: 2021935503
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.79" W x 8.62" L (0.92 lbs) 272 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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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