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ISBN-10 :  0192587657 

ISBN-13 : 9780192587657

Author : Michael Braddick 

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. Here, Michael Braddick 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 to current 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 economic regulation 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 the last 6000 years people have acted at smaller scales too. What we really have in common with previous inhabitants of this island is the ambition 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 much fuller perspective on where we are now. Just as importantly, it gives us more resources for thinking about what we might do next.

A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done 1st Table of contents:

1. Political Life: Power Over Our World, Power Over Each Other
The Roman Empire: Collective Institutions and Differential Power
Private Property and the Public Good
Public Works
Collective and Differential Power: The EU
2. Mobilizing Ideas and the Uses of Collective Institutions
Ideas and Power Relations
Shaping the Uses of Collective Power
Conflict and Resistance
3. Material Conditions and the Uses of Collective Institutions
Economic Change and Political Complexity
Environmental Change and Collective Institutions
Government and Technological Change
4. Organizational Capacity and the Changing Limits of the Possible
Collective Institutions, Famine, and Disease
Collective Institutions and Economic Change: The Romans
The regulation of credit
Path Dependency
5. Geographies of Collective Institutions and Identities: Which Groups Take Action for What Purposes?
Local and Regional Structures
Dynastic and National Structures
Supra-national and Inter-State Organizations
Institutions, People, and Political Identities
6. Political Inclusion: Who Makes Things Happen?
Inequality: Differential Power
Accessing the Power of Ideas
Accessing the Power of Collective Institutions
Historicizing Agency: Representation, Deliberation, Administration
7. Change Over Time: Phases in the History of Political Life
The Neolithic to the Iron Age: Material History, Identity, and Collective Power
55 bce to 950: The Impact of Rome, Christianity, and the Vikings
Dynastic Kingdoms I: 950–1300
Dynastic Kingdoms II: 1300–1650
A Hybrid State with a Maritime Empire: 1650–1800
Industrial Britain, 1800–1945
Post-War, 1945–2018
Conclusion: Globalizing the British Past—Parallel and Shared Histories
National History in a Global Age

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