England after the great recession : tracking the political and cultural consequences of the crisis / P.W. Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, P. W. (Peter Wallace), 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Financial crises--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Financial crises.

Financial crises--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Financial crises--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of neo-liberalism has been fatally weakened and will in due course be replaced. The implications of the crisis for politico-cultural identities and our sense of ourselves as members of an ordered society are explored"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

England: Place/Trajectory

War and Memory: Shifting Recollection Down the Generations

Changing Political Relationships: Europe and the USA in the Early 21st Century

Freedom From Britain: A Comment on Recent Elite Sponsored Political Cultural Identities

Cutting Scotland Loose: Soft Nationalism and Independence-in-Europe

The Other Side of the Coin: Reading the Politics of the 2008 Financial Tsunami

Downstream From the 2008/10 Crisis: Tracking the Economic and Political Effects

England: Available Images, Imagined Futures

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230290877

0230290876

OCLC:

766607496