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020			_a9781473670570 (paperback)
020			_a1473670578 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1202287810
050			_aJC421 _b.R45 2020
100	1		_aReid-Henry, Simon.
245	1	0	_aEmpire of democracy : _bthe remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 / _cSimon Reid-Henry.
260			_aLondon : _bJohn Murray, _c2020.
300			_a870 p.
500			_aReprint. Originally published: 2019.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: Two helicopters -- The unravelling -- The crisis of capitalism -- The reckoning -- A split in the world -- "Let fury have the hour" -- The victory : remaking Europe -- America and "a world transformed" -- The great convergence -- A democratic peace? -- The new prosperity -- Farewell to all that -- Blueprints for the new millennium -- The assault on freedom -- In the shadow of war -- The great recession -- Back to the streets -- Crisis upon crisis -- Epilogue: The end of an era?
520			_aIn this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and Western history with it, was profoundly re-imagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the C old War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. But equally it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times. The present crisis of liberalism enjoins us to revisit these as yet unscripted decades. The era we have all been living through is closing out, democracy is turning on its axis once again. As this panoramic history poignantly reminds us, the choices we make going forward require us first to come to terms with where we have been.
650		4	_aDemocracy _zWestern countries _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aDemocracy _zWestern countries _xHistory _y21th century.
650		4	_aLiberalism _zWestern countries _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aLiberalism _zWestern countries _xHistory _y21th century.
650		4	_aCold War _xPolitical aspects _xHistory. _zWestern countries
651		4	_aWestern countries _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		4	_aWestern countries _xPolitics and government _y21th century.
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