Crossing borders : political essays / Bernard Crick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crick, Bernard, 1929-2008.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Political science.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

Few, if any, contemporary political writers can match Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay. This collection demonstrates the vast range of his reading and writing with sparkling, pithy, erudite 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 (deplorable) state of political writing. Crossing Borders provides overwhelming evidence that important ideas and arguments can and most certainly should be expressed to be accessible and enlightening to the intelligent, non-specialist reader.

Contents:

The sense of identity of the indigenous British

For my fellow English

On Scottish nationalism

The politics of British history

Why the Northern Ireland peace process must take so long

The legacy of John Smith

Still missing : a public philosophy for New Labour

The decline of the political book

Political reviewing

Sassoon's One hundred years of socialism

Goldhagen's willing executioners

Hannaford on race

Multiculturalism

Talking to the loyalist paras

Rethinking Unionism

Gellner and postmodernism

Hannah Arendt and the burden of our times

On Isaiah Berlin

The legacy of Laski

Shaw as political thinker, or the dogs that did not bark

The complete Orwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826454747

OCLC:

46422057