Crossing borders : political essays / / Bernard Crick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458960603321
• Autore: Crick Bernard <1929-2008, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Continuum, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-4742-8738-7; 1-4742-8737-9; 1-4742-1241-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Collana: Bloomsbury Academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : Europe
• Disciplina: 320/.01
• Soggetti: Political science; Electronic books.; Great Britain Politics and government; Great Britain Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- 1. The Sense of Identity of the Indigenous British -- 2. For My Fellow English -- 3. On Scottish Nationalism -- 4. The Politics of British History -- 5. Why the Northern Ireland Peace Process Must Take So Long -- 6. The Legacy of John Smith -- 7. Still Missing: A Public Philosophy for New Labour -- 8. The Decline of the Political Book -- 9. Political Reviewing -- 10. Sassoon's One Hundred Years of Socialism -- 11. Goldhagen's Willing Executioners -- 12. Hannaford on Race -- 13. Multiculturalism -- 14. Talking to the Loyalist Paras -- 15. Rethinking Unionism -- 16. Gellner and Postmodernism -- 17. Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Time -- 18. On Isaiah Berlin -- 19. The Legacy of Laski -- 20. Shaw as Political Thinker, or the Dogs That Did Not Bark -- 21. The Complete Orwell -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay is matched by few, if any, modern political writers. This new collection demonstrates the wide range of his writing with characteristically bold, argumentative and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing. It will enlighten, provoke and amuse readers ; keen to engage with political ideas and arguments current at the turn of the millennium."--Bloomsbury Publishing.