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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Reid-HenryPublisher: John Murray Press Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781473670570ISBN 10: 1473670578 Pages: 880 Publication Date: 06 August 2020 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsReid-Henry makes the case for seeing our recent past as a distinct period, as well as showing that this era is drawing to a close. He does this convincingly, stylishly and with verve. This is as good a general account as we have of democracy's dysfunctions and discontents over the last 50 years, and a significant improvement on most of the books published recently on our current disorders... in this fine book he has at least provided some starting points for thinking about what we need to do next to overcomes the morbid systems of our age and build something new. * Irish Examiner * Absorbing * Sunday Times * A lucid, pulsating study . . . skilfully drawn * Economist * Gripping . . . deeply impressive . . . rigorously sourced * Independent * As exciting and readable as a Cold War thriller * The Times * Praise for Fidel and Che * . * Simon Reid-Henry has written a superbly informed and riveting historical analysis of our contemporary era, which opened in the 1970s and, as he brilliantly demonstrates, continues to transform the premises of Western democracies * Charles S. Maier, Harvard University * A monumental and nuanced history of the past half-century * Irish Times * [Empire of Democracy] yields insights that help us understand our present and imagine the possibilities of our future... The frontiers of the future can sometimes be discerned by studying the plains of our past. This book allows the reader to do both. * Sunday Business Post Ireland * Brilliantly, Reid-Henry calls for the salvation of democracy from the choices of its own leaders - if it is to survive * Samuel Moyn, Yale University * Formidably ambitious... boldly attempts to paint a thematic portrait of the world's democracies and delivers an argument that leaders grounded these political structures on free-market economics... There is much to admire in Reid-Henry's book * Financial Times * Brilliantly, Reid-Henry calls for the salvation of democracy from the choices of its own leaders - if it is to survive - Samuel Moyn, Yale University Simon Reid-Henry has written a superbly informed and riveting historical analysis of our contemporary era, which opened in the 1970s and, as he brilliantly demonstrates, continues to transform the premises of Western democracies - Charles S. Maier, Harvard University Praise for Fidel and Che - . As exciting and readable as a Cold War thriller - The Times Gripping . . . deeply impressive . . . rigorously sourced - Independent A lucid, pulsating study . . . skilfully drawn - Economist Absorbing - Sunday Times Author InformationSimon Reid-Henry is a writer and prize-winner scholar. Associate Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, he holds a joint position as a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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