Britain today is falling apart. One of the most dominant states in world history finds itself confronted with growing demands for nationalist secessionism. Brexit has already secured its break from the European Union while looming Scottish independence threatens to undermine the integrity of the British state. Meanwhile, class, gender, regional and generational inequalities are deepening while endemic racism has been re-invigorated. How has it come to this?
Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars sustaining the democratic settlement have begun to crumble. This stability was constructed amid a century of imperial expansion abroad and working-class struggles for justice at home. This book traces how successive governments have incrementally dismantled the democratic settlement, and how a bipartisan commitment to neoliberalism has culminated in a historic crisis of representation and legitimacy, opening the door to competing nationalist forces.
- ISBN10 1526164582
- ISBN13 9781526164582
- Publish Date 24 January 2023
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English