A History of England - England 1945-2000

Folio Society, 2001, very good condition with slipcase

In this volume readers can see the idea of England re-emerging from the break-up of the Empire and the recasting of the British state. Loss of empire was accompanied and succeeded by the search for a role, pursued in four directions: a `Special Relationship' with the United States, the Commonwealth, with what was to become the European Union, and with the British State, now devolved. Meanwhile, England's cultural and economic roles in the world - which had contributed so much to English self-perceptions before WW2, also came into question. Englishness has undergone a startling adjustment to cultural and racial pluralism, an era of counter-colonisation, and of new citizens from Asia and the Caribbean establishing themselves. Englishness has changed and this book chronicles how it happens, and attempts to explain why...