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Empire of Democracy

Simon Reid-Henry

'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review

'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post

'[Reid-Henry] conveys an important message: Individual political action must become accountable to society's interests' Kirkus

'Reid-Henry's scholarship is impressive gathering a wide range of historical anecdotes and referencing a diverse set of thinkers' Publishers Weekly

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.

In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy and Western history with it was profoundly re-imagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher Reagan Mitterrand Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the C old War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8 and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times.

The present crisis of liberalism enjoins us to revisit these as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this panoramic history poignantly reminds us the choices we make going forward require us first to come to terms with where we have been.

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  • Classification : Politics & Current Affairs
  • Pub Date : JUN 11, 2020
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 880
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781473670570
  • Price : INR 1,150
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Simon Reid-Henry

Simon Reid-Henry is an author and academic. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was awarded the Leverhulme Prize in 2012. He is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His writing can be found in the Guardian New Statesman Economist The Times Independent on Sunday and the London Review of Books. He divides his time between London and Oslo where he lives with his wife and their two sons>

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