History

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history by David Edgerton

Item: The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history
Author: Simon Tormey

by Simon Tormey •

January-February 2019, no. 408

Allen Lane, $69.99 hb, 711 pp, 9781846147753

History

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history by David Edgerton

by Simon Tormey •

January-February 2019, no. 408

As we await the fate of the United Kingdom in its tortuous process of extricating itself from the European Union, what better time to produce a provocatively titled text purporting to trace nothing less than the rise and decline of the British nation?

Simon Tormey

Simon Tormey is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney. His many books include Anti-Capitalism: A beginner’s guide, revised in 2013 for Oneworld, and most recently The End of Representative Politics (Polity Press, 2015). His new book, Populism: A beginner’s guide (Oneworld) will appear in 2019.