![]() ![]() Despite a largely positive critical reception for Rise and Fall, neither the historian David Kynaston writing in the ft nor the journalist and commentator Neal Ascherson in the lrb could quite reconcile its depiction of a technological forcing house with their impressions of the period.Ī historian at King’s College London, Edgerton has spent much of his career self-consciously swimming against the tide of British historiography, a reflection perhaps of his insider-outsider status. The record of one of the capitalist world’s most prodigious economies lies ‘buried in mountains of evidence of what supposedly thwarted it’. Post-war Britain, on the other hand, was sufficient unto itself, and far more successful than standard accounts allow. Today, a much diminished Ukania cannot possibly go it alone, Edgerton insists. ![]() ![]() The Rise and Fall of the British Nation aims to dispel the myths which, David Edgerton claims, envelop his subject, chief among them the notion that Britain’s relative decline after 1945 had its roots in the anti-industrial culture of a gentleman-amateur governing elite. ![]()
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