02684cam a2200325Mi 4500 on1202287810 OCoLC ta 210210r20202019enk b 001 0 eng 9781473670570 (paperback) 1473670578 (paperback) (OCoLC)1202287810 JC421 .R45 2020 Reid-Henry, Simon. Empire of democracy : the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 / Simon Reid-Henry. London : John Murray, 2020. 870 p. Reprint. Originally published: 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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? 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 re-imagined 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 C old 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. Democracy Western countries History 20th century. Democracy Western countries History 21th century. Liberalism Western countries History 20th century. Liberalism Western countries History 21th century. Cold War Political aspects History. Western countries Western countries Politics and government 20th century. Western countries Politics and government 21th century. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 JC421 .R45 2020 PNLIB21060912 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 1098 1098