Crossing Borders: Political Essays (History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic)

"Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay is matched by few, if any, modern political writers. This new collection demonstrates the wide range of his writing with characteristically bold, argumentative and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing. It will enlighten, provoke and amuse readers keen to engage with political ideas and arguments current at the turn of the millennium."-- Provided by publisher Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface 1 The Sense of Identity of the Indigenous British 2 For My Fellow English 3 On Scottish Nationalism 4 The Politics of British History 5 Why the Northern Ireland Peace Process Must Take So Long 6 The Legacy of John Smith 7 Still Missing: A Public Philosophy for New Labour 8 The Decline of the Political Book 9 Political Reviewing 10 Sassoon's One Hundred Years of Socialism 11 Goldhagen's Willing Executioners 12 Hannaford on Race 13 Multiculturalism 14 Talking to the Loyalist Paras 15 Rethinking Unionism 16 Gellner and Postmodernism 17 Hannah Arendt and the Burden of Our Times 18 On Isaiah Berlin 19 The Legacy of Laski 20 Shaw as Political Thinker, or the Dogs That Did Not Bark 21 The Complete Orwell Index "Bernard Crick's mastery of the political essay is matched by few, if any, modern political writers. This new collection demonstrates the wide range of his writing with characteristically bold, argumentative and witty pieces on British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing. It will enlighten, provoke and amuse readers keen to engage with political ideas and arguments current at the turn of the millennium."--Bloomsbury Publishing This collection of essays from Bernard Crick look at British identity, on the Northern Irish peace process, on New Labour, on Shaw, Berlin, Laski and Arendt, and on the present state of political writing,