2nd Edition
Political Ideas in Modern Britain In and After the Twentieth Century
By Rodney Barker
Copyright 1997
360 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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The rise of the New Right and the collapse of state communism in 1989 has fundamentally changed political thinking in the late twentieth century. Rodney Barker has revised and extended his classic text - Political Ideas in Modern Britain - in the light of these changes. His accessible account of political thinking in Britain since the 1880s now includes detailed analysis of: * the demise of... Read more
1a. Introduction 1996 b. Introduction 1978 2. Friends of the Modern State 3. Pleas for Liberty 4. Neither State nor Individual: the defence of communal and group politics 5. The Pale of the Constitution: the idea of citizenship 6. Accommodation to the Modern State: political ideas in the second quarter of the twentieth century 7. Arrivals and Departures: political ideas in the third quarter of the twentieth century 8. The Death of Conservatism and the Dispersal of Liberalism 9. The Death of Socialism and the Rise of the Left 10. Definitions and Doormats - the rise of feminism 11. Conclusion Bibliography. Index
Biography
Rodney Barker is a Senior Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
