The politics of pain : postwar England and the rise of nationalism /

From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism. England's recent lurch to the right appears to be but one example of the nationalist wave sweeping across the world, yet a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Toole, Fintan, 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019].
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	European Union > Great Britain. European Union > History > 21st century. Great Britain > Foreign relations > European Union countries. European Union countries > Foreign relations > Great Britain. Great Britain > Politics and government > 2007- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European.

Table of Contents:

Preface: The importance of not being earnest
Introduction
1. The pleasures of self-pity
2. SS-GB : life in occupied England
3. The triumph of the light brigade
4. A pint of beer, a packet of prawn cocktail flavour crisps and two ounces of dog shit, please
5. Sadopopulism
6. The twilight of the gods : English dreamtime
7. The sore tooth and the broken umbrella
8. Postscript: A special place in Hell
Notes.