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Crossing borders : political essays /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crick, Bernard, 1929-2008 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Series:Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : Europe.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 Postmodernism17 Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times; 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