<p><b><i>A History of Modern Britain</i> by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. </b><b>This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.</b><br><br>It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted.<br><br> Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals t
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<p><b>In <i>The Making of Modern Britain</i>, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.</b><br><br>...
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From the earliest civilizations to the twenty-first century, Andrew Marr's A History of the World is a compelling global journey through human history.
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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted...
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<div><I>The Modern History of Iraq</I> is a remarkably readable account of the emergence of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. This text weaves together...
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