Title Democracy and political culture : studies in modern British history / Ross McKibbin

Published Oxforfd, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents J.M. Keynes as sociologist: the rentier in the social system -- A story of his time: the political career of Harold Nicolson -- The triumph of the medical hero: A.J. Cronin's The Citadel -- The two-party system in Britain: end or new beginning? -- Sport between 'play' and 'system' -- Sport as religion and emotion -- Undoing stereotypes: Britain and Australia in the twentieth century Summary Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together allow us to reach a number general conclusions about modern British history. In this sense it is a successor to McKibbin's previous collection of essays, The Ideologies of Class (1991), while it also takes up a number of the themes of his Classes and Cultures (1998). Above all, it is a study of British democracy and asks the questions: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society and how might we measure it against other comparable societies? To do so, McKibbin has chosen not only more 'global' subjects - Britain's social structure and the sources of political authority; the social and political effects of the first world war; Britain's electoral and party system; its literary culture; its sporting culture, and the relation of that culture to the rest of the world, as well as to Britain itself; and a comparison of Britain's political culture with one of the closest comparable societies, Australia, and what that tells us about Britain - but also individual studies of three men, very prominent in British life, who, in different ways, both contributed to Britain's political culture and were also students of it: J.M. Keynes, an economist, Harold Nicolson, a politician and writer, and A.J. Cronin, a novelist. All three represented British political culture in its broadest spectrum Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 27, 2020) Subject Democracy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Political culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Social structure -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Political culture -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Social structure Political culture Democracy Politics and government Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Genre/Form Electronic books Cross-cultural studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191872365 0191872369 9780192570970 0192570978

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