About this title: After Britain is a scathing analysis of the twilight of an ancient state: the United Kingdom. Its constitutional monarchy (lacking a written constitution), its parliamentary democracy (with a totally undemocratic second chamber) and its rule of law (without a full bill of rights or freedom of information) were once the envy of the world. Now, a 'modernizing' government is embarking on a last ditch effort to shore up the fragments of old glory. In this mordantly funny and brilliantly perceptive book, Tom Naim shows how self-government in Scotland and Wales will inexorably remove sovereignty ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Granta Books
Date Published: 12/12/2000
ISBN-13:9781862073227ISBN:1862073228
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Edition: Not First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Granta Books,, London:
Date Published: 2000
Description: VG/VG+ Very light edgewear to book and jacket. 2 inch tear to endpaper at front hinge, but binding completely intact.; 8vo; 324 pages; Reflection on the British state, focusing on the Blair government and relations with Scotland. The author predicts that Scotland will lead the break up of the United Kingdom. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Granta Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781862073227ISBN:1862073228
Description: As New Labour attempts to modernize the United Kingdom, Tom Nairn provides this scathing analysis of a state with a constitutional monarchy that lacks a written constitution and a parliamentary democracy with an undemocratic second chamber. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Granta Books, London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781862070509ISBN:1862070504
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Used book. Text very clean with few marks. Title page shows signs of detaching from main body of text. small annotation to front endpaper. Jacket clean with few marks but damaged to top corner to front. Hard cover clean. This is the sharpest dissection yet of New Labour's rhetoric of change and modernity. The author sees Blair as the last leader of an old state that now cannot resist change, and which will not survive him. 324 pages. read more
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