The Cultural Roots of British Devolution - Softcover

Gardiner, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748619216 ISBN 13: 9780748619214

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book presents a provocative argument which suggests that cultural devolution preceded and indeed forced political change. A ‘post-British’ form of culture - as found across literature, education and philosophy - has long been in the making, arising especially in local communities who no longer see themselves as British.The author places this change in the context of post-imperial Britain in the second half of the20th century and looks at how underground cultures such as rave and reggae may have laid the foundations for a post-British culture. The various attempts to re-constitutionalise Britain are explored and the book ends with two key questions: how has the progress of a post-British culture been viewed in Scotland, and how do we pull a post-British England out of a devolutionary process which is liable to outstrip all British control?Key Features:*The first serious account of the history of the growing cultural division within Britain in the second half of the 20th century.*Accentuates the cultural roots of devolution, bringing them out from the shadow of party-political explanations.*Looks at the effects of devolution upon both Scottish and English culture.

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About the Author

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748619216
• ISBN 13: 9780748619214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200