![]() ![]() ![]() Edgerton has certainly achieved this.’ Oliver Hadingham, History.Ī challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. Lewis Namier, another historian known for his combative brand of scholarship, viewed iconoclasm as the judge of a great historian, that having produced an account of a period “others should not be able to practise within its sphere in the terms of the preceding era”. ‘… refreshing and immensely stimulating, and should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to understand the reality of twentieth-century Britain. ![]() There are no briskly dispensed panaceas here: this is political economy for grown-ups.’ Colin Kidd, New Statesman His latest book, appearing on the eve of Brexit, challenges many of the fundamental preconceptions of Brexiteers and Remainers alike. In a series of incisive, polemically charged and formidably researched books, … he has thoroughly defamiliarised the seemingly well-known contours of our recent past. … Edgerton is Britain’s most exciting and arresting late-modern historian. ‘Every so often a book comes along that the entire political class needs to read. ![]() The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History ![]()
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