02802cam a2200337Mi 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020003000063020002700093035002200120050002100142100002300163245010300186260003400289300001100323500004100334504005100375505049700426520099300923650005701916650005701973650005802030650005802088650006102146651006202207651006202269942001202331952010602343999001502449on1202287810OCoLCta210210r20202019enk      b    001 0 eng    a9781473670570 (paperback)  a1473670578 (paperback)  a(OCoLC)1202287810  aJC421b.R45 20201 aReid-Henry, Simon.10aEmpire of democracy :bthe remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 /cSimon Reid-Henry.  aLondon :bJohn Murray,c2020.  a870 p.  aReprint. Originally published: 2019.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aPrologue: 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?  aIn 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. 4aDemocracyzWestern countriesxHistoryy20th century. 4aDemocracyzWestern countriesxHistoryy21th century. 4aLiberalismzWestern countriesxHistoryy20th century. 4aLiberalismzWestern countriesxHistoryy21th century. 4aCold WarxPolitical aspectsxHistory.zWestern countries 4aWestern countriesxPolitics and governmenty20th century. 4aWestern countriesxPolitics and governmenty21th century.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oJC421 .R45 2020pPNLIB21060912r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c1098d1098