A Useful History of Britain

The Politics of Getting Things Done

A Useful History of Britain
Michael Braddick
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Hardback
h216 x 135mm - 288pg
1 Jun 2021 UK
9780198848301
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The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island. This book sets out to do something else-to ask how people in the past used political power to get things done. Offering a concise thematic overview, it shows how history can speak directly tocurrent political debates. Many people feel that national governments are irrelevant to their lives and that the problems we now face are beyond our control-climate change, disease and global economicregulation for example. But much of this is not new. The ideas and challenges driving political life have always affected larger parts of the globe: British experience has always been part of a shared and parallel global history, often directly linked by institutions reaching well beyond the island. On the other hand, throughout these 6000 years people have acted at smaller scales too. What we really have in common with previous inhabitants of this island is thisdesire to use political power to get things done, not a shared destiny culminating in government based in Westminster. This book sets out to learn more broadly from their experience, giving us a muchfuller perspective on where we are now. Just as importantly, it gives us more resources for thinking about what we might do next.
Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, and has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the USA, Australia, France, and Germany. He has written extensively on the social, economic and political life of early modern England, Britain and the Atlantic, particularly in relation to state formation, popular politics and the English revolution. His most recent book is The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and theEnglish Revolution.

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