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Auteur(s) : McKibbin, Ross
Titre(s) : Democracy and political culture [Texte imprimé] : studies in modern British history / Ross McKibbin
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (184 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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
Sujet(s) : Démocratie -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Culture politique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Politique et culture -- Grande-Bretagne -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.941 (23e éd.) = Situation et conditions politiques - Îles Britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198834205. - ISBN 0198834209 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456948247
Notice n° :
FRBNF45694824
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