1: Edwardian Equipoise and the First World War
2: Unstable Equilibrium, 1918-1929
3: The Crisis of Labour and the Conservative Hegemony, 1929-39
4: The Party System Thrown Off Course
5: The English Road to Socialism.
6: England: Social Change, Historical Accident and Democracy
Ross McKibbin is Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College,
Oxford.
The distillation of a lifetime's reflection, and as compelling as
it is engaging. The historian's art at its most disciplined and
distinguished.
*Times Higher Education*
[A] subtly argued study.
*Paul Smith, Times Literary Supplement*
A model of careful scholarship
*Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman*
The political history so readably, as well as convincingly,
analysed by McKibbin has plenty of dramatic surprises and
unexpected reversals of fortune.
*W. G. Runciman, London Review of Books*
This is a book that is certainly well written and offers a
beguiling explanation of the events that created England's present,
but far from inevitable, system of democracy. It deserves to be
widely read.
*Keith Laybourn, History*
An elegant and engaging addition to the history of English
democracy.
*Laura Beers, Reviews in History*
An excellent guide to current thinking on these issues, and should
be very useful for students as well as faculty concerned with the
social basis of British politics. Highly recommended.
*H.L. Smith, CHOICE*
offer[s] a fascinating discussion ... This book can be read and
enjoyed by the general reader as we ll as the academic
specialist
*Iain Sharpe, Journal of Liberal History*
an outstanding piece of scholarship: it is a major original
contribution to the field ... a path-breaking work that will demand
attention of all those working on the period.
*Andrew Thorpe, English Historical Review*
Ross McKibbin has encouraged a rich and complex approach to British
history. We are all in his debt.
*Rohan McWilliam, Tribune Magazine*
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