Britain After the Five Crises: Financial Collapse, Migration, Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Britain: A Decade of Crises, Particular and General, 2008-2022 -- Crisis in the Recent Decades -- Particular Crises Interlinked -- Provisionally, Firstly, Political Failings -- Provisionally, Secondly, Institutional -- Provisionally, Third Organizationally -- Provisionally, Fourth, Failing to Grasp Social Impacts -- General Crisis: The Wheel of History -- The End of Ideas About Neo-liberal Globalization -- The End of Ideas of Western Pre-eminence -- Finessing the Crises -- An agenda for Enquiry -- 2 The British Empire: Finessing the Collapse, 1942-1956 -- Shaping Post-War British Politics: A Road Not Taken -- The State-Empire: Geographically Extensive, Multi-ethnic and Loosely Ordered -- Metropolitan Conflict, Peripheral Revolt and the Progressive Collapse of Empire -- Metropolitan Critics -- Peripheral Voices -- Aspirant Players -- World War and Empire Collapse -- Major Conflicts -- The State-Empire System Overwhelmed -- Reworking the Empire: Change and Understanding in Core and Periphery -- First, Which People -- Boundaries and Territorial Definition -- Second, What Type of Economy -- Conflict and Argument (Classes/Theories) -- Third, What Sort of Identity -- Dynamics of Political-Cultural Redefinition -- Social/Cultural Legacies of Empire: Nostalgia, Race and Racism -- Post-War: Some Reforms, Disappointments -- The Empire: Collapse, but Elite Continuity -- 3 European Union: Particular Anxieties, Deeper Issues, 2008-2022 -- Europe: The Broad Historical Trajectory -- European Union in Summary -- Europe: The Disasters of Early Twentieth Century -- The Crisis, Cold War and the Division of Europe -- The End of the Bloc System -- EU/NATO Linkage -- Membership of NATO and the Union -- Europe: Recent Anxieties, Deeper Issues -- Particular Anxieties: Euro Crisis, Migration and Brexit.