Crossing borders : political essays / Bernard Crick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crick, Bernard, 1929-2008, author.

Series:

History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

"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.

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 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781474287388

1474287387

9781474287371

1474287379

9781474212410

1474212417

OCLC:

957525023