What's Left Now?: The History and Future of Social Democracy

by Andrew Hindmoor

Book Overview

Our sense of history shapes how we think about who we are. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history--one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979 marked the start of a still-continuing fall from political grace made evident by the triumph of a free market get-what-you-can neoliberal ideology, dizzying levels of inequality, social decay,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198805993
• ISBN13: 9780198805991
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"