{"product_id":"britain-alone-how-a-decade-of-conflict-remade-the-nation-9781526164384","title":"Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain’s economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable reversal. How did this happen?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritain alone\u003c\/i\u003e argues that this “nationalisation” — aligning the boundaries of the state with its national peoples — emerged from the 2008 global financial crisis. The book analyses how austerity and scarcity intensified and created new conflicts over who gets what. This extends to struggle over what the British nation is for, who it represents, and who it values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a range of cultural, economic, and political themes — immigration and the hostile environment, nostalgia and Second World War mythology, race and the “left behind”, the clap for carers and furloughing, as well as \u003ci\u003eSuperscrimpers\u003c\/i\u003e and stand-up comedy — the book traces the complex nationalist path Britain took after the crash, demonstrating how we cannot explain nationalism without reference to the economy, and vice versa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn analysing the thread that ties the fallout of the crash and austerity, through Brexit, and to the shape of lockdown politics, \u003ci\u003eBritain alone\u003c\/i\u003e provides an incisive and original history of the last decade of Britain and its relationship to the global economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBritain alone\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and incisive piece of scholarship, full of historically-grounded insight about the place of state, nation, and empire in Britain’s present political economy and consequent political predicaments.'\u003cbr\u003eHelen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In recent years, Britain has been gripped by political delusions and nostalgia, culminating in the Johnson premiership. Liam Stanley's great achievement is to dig beneath the mania and identify the underlying drivers, explaining how the unnecessary imposition of austerity created the conditions for a new nationalism. A lively and original analysis of Britain's extraordinary last dozen years.'\u003cbr\u003eWill Davies, Professor of Political Economy, Goldsmiths\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 A nation in debt\u003cbr\u003e2 Nostalgic visions\u003cbr\u003e3 White Britain\u003cbr\u003e4 From exclusion to inequality\u003cbr\u003e5 In or out\u003cbr\u003e6 Unleashing Britain’s potential\u003cbr\u003e7 Locked down\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041031356759,"sku":"9781526164384","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526164384.jpg?v=1750948676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/britain-alone-how-a-decade-of-conflict-remade-the-nation-9781526164384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}