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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Reid-Henry, Simon, author.     Subjects     Democracy -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.     Democracy -- Western countries -- History -- 21st century.     Liberalism -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.     Liberalism -- Western countries -- History -- 21st century.     Cold War -- Political aspects -- Western countries -- History.     Western countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     Western countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Reid-Henry, Simon, author.       by title:      Empire of democracy ...         MARC Display

Empire of democracy : the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 / Simon Reid-Henry. by Reid-Henry, Simon, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. Subjects Democracy -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.   Democracy -- Western countries -- History -- 21st century.   Liberalism -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century.   Liberalism -- Western countries -- History -- 21st century.   Cold War -- Political aspects -- Western countries -- History.   Western countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century.   Western countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century. ISBN:  9781451684964 (hardcover) : 1451684967 (hardcover) : Description:  865 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Contents:  Prologue: 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? Requests:  0 Summary:  "A unique, rich history of Western liberal democracy over the last forty years, from the fundamental series of changes in the 1970s, to its latest, present incarnation. Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy"-- with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next-- a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew. In 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 reimagined 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 Cold 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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 320.91821 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 320.91821 Re Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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