The Republican Transformation of Modern British Politics

ISBN-13: 9780333734964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 228 str.

Geoffrey Foote

Opis

An original study of a major change in the political thought of modern Britain, arguing that the period between 1956 and 1968 saw a seminal change in political thinking which created the framework of today's politics. A republican tradition of active citizenship, community and democracy was developed within the New Left and the radical Liberals around Jo Grimond. The Right, whose republican version of a property-owners democracy was developed by Michael Oakeshott and Enoch Powell, completed the new political framework.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Republican Idea PART 1: REPUBLICAN SOCIALISM Socialist Humanism and Republican Theory The Transposition of Republican Thought The Radical Republicans PART TWO: THE REPUBLICAN MARKET Jo Grimond and the Unservile State A Republicanism of the Right The Importance of Enoch The Republic of the Suburbs Notes and References Index

O autorze

GEOFFREY FOOTE is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Teesside, UK. He is the author of The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History and A Chronology of Postwar British Politics.